Ben Shneiderman

Essays by Ben Shneiderman

Since 2013, essays have been included in the Unrefereed Publications section

Selected recent papers

• Toward an ecological model of research and development, The Atlantic (April 2013).
• Tragic Errors: Usability and Electronic Health Records, ACM Interactions (Nov/Dec 2011).
• Growing Success, Expanding Scope: Defining Micro- and Macro HCI, ACM Interactions (Sept/Oct 2011).
• Testimony ONC/SHARP HIT Policy Committee, Certification/Adoption Workgroup (April 21, 2011), Washington, DC
• Book Review for Borner, Katy, Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know, MIT Press, 2010, Appeared in Nature 468 (December 30, 2010), 1037.
• The New Computing: Human Values and the Future of Technology (February 2010)
• An open letter to Obama, in support of social participation (Copying the style of Einstein's letter to Franklin Roosevelt 70 years earlier in 1939) (Government Computer News, August 3, 2009)
• National Initiative for Social Participation in Science (AAAS, March 13, 2009, Vol 323, No. 5920, 1426-1427)
• Foreword to Handbook of Socio-Technical Systems and Social Networking(February 2009)
• Science 2.0: an article in Science (AAAS, March 7, 2008), describes a design science to studyweb-based collaboration.
• Press release,Wired.com story
• Web Science: A Provocative Invitation to Computer Science(CACM, June 2007)
• Human-Centered Agenda for Discovery and Innovation Statement to President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology (Sept 2006)
• Crisis and Opportunity in Computer Science (w. M. Klawe, CACM, Oct, 2005)
• Designing for Fun: How Can We Design User Interfaces to Be More Fun? (2004)
• Foreword: Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Chen, 2004)
• Promoting Universal Usability with Multi-Layer Interface Design (2003)
• Why Not Make Interfaces Better than 3D Reality? (2003)
• A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public (2003)
• Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos (2000)
• The Limits of Speech Recognition (2000)
• Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (2000)
• ACM's Computing Professionals Face New Challenges (A response to Sept 11) (2002)
• Designing Information-Abundant Websites (1997)
• Relate-Create-Donate: A teaching/learning philosophy for the cyber-generation (1997)
• Information Visualization: White Paper (1997)

Recent Book Forewords

• Parush, Avi, Conceptual Design for Interactive Systems: Designing for Performance and User Experience, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2015). [Amazon]
• Marcus, Aaron, Mobile Persuasion Design, Springer (2015).
• Lima, Manuel, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, Princeton Architectural Press, New York (2014), 7-8. [Amazon]
• Golbeck, Jennifer, Analyzing the Social Web, Morgan Kaufmann, Waltham, MA (2013), xxii-xxiv. [Amazon]
• Jacko, J. (Editor), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction: 3rd Edition, Foreword: The Expanding Impact of Human-Computer Interaction, Taylor & Francis, London (2012), xv-xvi. Extended version appeared as: Shneiderman, B., Claiming success, charting the future: micro-HCI and macro-HCI, ACM Interactions 18, 5 (Sept/Oct 2011), 10-11.
• Chen, Chaomei, Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity, Springer, New York (2012), v-vii. [Amazon]
• Newell, Alan, Design and the Digital Divide: Insights from 40 Years in Computer Support for Older and Disabled People, Synthesis Lectures on Assistive, Rehabilitative, and Health-Preserving Technologies (Ron Baecker, Editor), Morgan & Claypool Publishers (2011), xvii-xviii. [Amazon]
• Aigner, W., Miksch, S., Schumann, H., and Tominski, C., Visualization of Time-Oriented Data, Springer, Berlin (2011), vii-viii. [Amazon]
• Whitworth, Brian and De Moor, Aldo (Editors), Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems, IGI Global, Hershey, PA (2009), xxvi-xxix. [Amazon]
• Inselberg, A., Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and Its Applications, Springer, New York (2009), v-vi. [Amazon]
• Lazar, J. (Editor), Universal Usability: Designing User Interfaces for Diverse Users, John Wiley & Sons, New York (2007), vii-xiv. [Amazon]