Ben Shneiderman

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    Previous Projects of Ben Shneiderman:

• Bioinformatics Visualization
  We developed information visualization tools for gene expression data analysis, including mosaics, hierarchical clustering, parallel coordinates, treemaps, and scattergrams.

• BRQLayer
  BRQLayer is a photo viewer that generates Bi-level Radial Quantum (BRQ) layouts, which consist of a primary region surrounded by secondary regions. The thumbnails resize and the regions shift around dynamically as the layout is resized.

• Business Network Monitoring Visualization
  Several small projects relevant to Network Management (satellite network, business network).

• Categorized Search Results
  Users can view and organize web search results using meaningful and stable hierarchies. This can help speed discovery, especially for exploratory searchs.

• Community Response Grids
  The 911.gov system would rely on the Internet and the mobile communication devices to allow citizens to receive and submit information about significant homeland security community problems. Based on lessons from recent natural catastrophes and the terror attacks of 9/11, telephone, radio, and television-based emergency response systems cannot meet all of the emergency response needs of communities. The combination of mobile telecommunications devices and the Internet in 911.gov, however, has the potential to provide higher capacity and more effective service, as well as create interactive communication mechanisms that can reach many more citizens and government officials simultaneously.

• Digital Docket
  Our work aims to develop interfaces to help scholars in the humanities and social sciences explore large text collections. We focus on the use of a combination of content and meta data to visualize the collection and support exploration.

• Dynamaps and Census Data User Interfaces
  Dynamap is an interface designed to facilitate easier viewing and dynamic query sliders for analysis of map-related census data.

• Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire

• Dynamic Query Interfaces for the EOSDIS Information System
  How to help earth scientists find the data they need.

• Elastic Windows for Rapid Multiple Window Management
  Windows are organized in a hierarchical fashion on a space-filling tiled layout to support multiple window operations which enable fast task-switching and display reorganization.

• EmailViz: Email Archive Visualization
  A range of projects focused on visualizing archived email of individuals, and the organizational and social spaces to which they belong.

• Generalized Query Previews
  Query previews form a simple and effective method to eliminate most of the zero-hit and mega-hit queries and help users prune data efficiently. Generalized query previews supply distribution information on data attributes and give continuous feedback about the result size.

• GENEX
  Genex is a framework (1998 CHI keynote) for an integrated set of software tools that support creativity in science, medicine, the arts, and beyond. It's four phases are: collect, create, consult, then disseminate.

• Govstat Project
  Integration of data and interfaces to enhance human understanding of government statistics.

• Hierarchical Clustering Explorer
  The Hierarchical Clustering Explorer began by supporting interactive exploration of clusters shown in dendrograms. It expanded to included the powerful rank-by-feature framework to support systematic discovery in high-dimensional multi-variate data.

• High-Precision Touchscreens: Museum Kiosks, Home Automation and Touchscreen Keyboards
  Between 1987 and 1991 HCIL worked on a series of touchscreen projects for museum kiosks, home automation, and text data entry.

• Highway Traffic Management
  Summary of several projects conducted in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology.

• Hypertext Research: The Development of HyperTIES
  Pioneering work on hypertext.

• Learning Historian
  The Learning Historian record the history of user interaction with a simulation and allows this history to be replayed for review, sent with a message, used in a tutorial, or replayed as a series of variants to facilitate comparisons and explorations.

• Library of Congress National Digital Library
  Prototypes for the American Memory collections.

• Lifelines for Juvenile Justice (Original)
  LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories.

• LifeLines for Visualizing Patient Records
  LifeLines is a zoomable one screen overview of a patient record.

• PhotoFinder
  Sustained effort to develop personal photo library browsing tools, including the patented drag-and-drop annotation tool with search capabilities.

• Questionnaire for User Interface Satisfaction (QUIS)
  The QUIS is designed to assess users' subjective satisfaction with specific aspects of the human-computer interface.

• Research Issues in the Electronic Classroom
  We evaluated electronic classrooms used to support collaborative strategies for learning. The AT&T Teaching Theater and the IBM-TQM Teaching Theater provided an unusual opportunity to investigate the application of hypermedia and collaborative groupware to lecture and college seminar environments.

• Role Management
  A proposed fourth generation user-centered design emphasizing users’ roles, colleagues, and tasks rather than documents.

• Simulated Processes in a Learning Environment (SimPLE)
  An application framework for creating simulation-based learning environments.

• Snap-Together Visualization
  Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. SNAP is a software tool for creating coordinated views.

• Sonification of Maps
  Color coded maps (choropleth maps) are often used to present information such as unemployment rates for each state. An auditory version (sonification) of such maps benefit blind users by providing an interactive sonic map.

• TimeSearcher for Time-Series Data
  TimeSearcher 1 and 2 provide powerful search capabilities for numerical (integer or real) time series with equally spaced time points. Appropriate for gene expresssion, financial, weather, and many other time-varying data series. Users specify queries with innovative graphical timeboxes and pattern matching widgets

• Treemap
  Treemap 4 provides information visualization tools for hierarchical data using a novel space filling approach. There are now dozens of commercial and freeware versions of treempas, and our research tools remain available for educational purposes.

• Visible Human
  Coordinated previews and overviews help find the right slice.

• Visualizing Legal Information (Dotfire, GRIDL)
  Working on legal information gave us a chance to test emerging ideas of visual displays for digital libraries. These working demonstrations expanded on the Spotfire ideas of dynamic queries, and added a grid interface to organize data by categorical attributes.

• WebTOC: A Tool to Visualize and Quantify Web Sites
  The table of contents of a website with indication of the amount and type of information behind each branch of the hierarchy.