Ben Shneiderman
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Current Position: Professor, Computer Science,UMIACS;
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, user interface design, information visualization, social media. Academic Degree: Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, 1973. |
Honors:
- Honorary doctorate from Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain awarded to Ben Shneiderman on February 9, 2010.
- International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction publishes a special issue in honor of Ben Shneiderman’s 60th birthday in 2007.
- National Academy of Engineering elected Ben Shneiderman as a new member on February 17, 2010.
Ben Shneiderman (resume) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. His move into information visualization spawned Spotfire, known for pharmaceutical drug discovery and genomic data analysis. He is a technical advisor for the treemap visualization producer, The Hive Group.
Ben is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th ed., 2010, with C. Plaisant). He co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999) with S. Card and J. Mackinlay. His book, Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies (MIT Press), won the IEEE Award for Distinguished Literary Contribution in 2004. His most recent book, Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World (2011), was co-authored with D. Hansen and M. A. Smith.
A. V. Williams Building, Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland,College Park, MD 20742
| Phone: (301) 405-2680 | Fax: (301) 405-6707 |
| Email: ben@cs.umd.edu | Twitter: benbendc |