Dear All
Apologies for cross-postings.
Next Thursday 14th October at 2.30pm Professor Ben Shneiderman, one of
the world's leading researchers in Human Computer Interaction, will
give a lecture demonstration in the Clore Lecture Theatre, Birkbeck
College, U. of London. All are most welcome. The abstract for the talk
is below.
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Abstract
Information Visualization for Access to Digital Libraries
This talk will present information visualization strategies that
enable researchers, teachers, and students to find relevant
information in vast digital libraries and educational information
resources. The key strategy is:
Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand
For example, the starfield display shows a document collection in
a two-dimensional color-coded user-controlled workspace. A demo
of the commercial version of this technique, Spotfire, is
available [http://www.spotfire.com]. Our projects with NASA's
vast environmental datasets, the US National Library of
Medicine's Visible Human, US Library of Congress National
Digital Library, and WestGroup's legal information provide
additional examples. Videotapes of these and other
visualizations will be shown.
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Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer
Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and
Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies and for
Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College
Park.
Dr. Shneiderman 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 (1987, second edition 1992, third edition 1998),
Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His 1989 book, co-
authored with Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-On!, contains a
hypertext version on two disks. It was the world's first
commercial electronic book and pioneered the highlighted embedded
link. This concept was part of the Hyperties hypermedia system,
now produced by Cognetics Corp., Princeton Junction, NJ.
Dr. Shneiderman has co-authored three textbooks, edited three
technical books, and published more than 200 technical papers and
book chapters. His 1993 edited book Sparks of Innovation in
Human-Computer Interaction collects 25 papers from ten years of
research at the University of Maryland. This collection includes
Dr. Shneiderman's seminal paper on direct manipulation, a term he
coined in 1981 to describe the graphical user interface design
principles: visual presentation of objects and actions combined
with pointing techniques to accomplish rapid incremental and
reversible operations. His current work on information
visualization has led to a commercial product called Spotfire.
A collection of 43 key papers with extensive commentary - Using
Vision to Think - appeared in January 1999 (with S. Card and
J. Mackinlay).
Ben Shneiderman is on the Board of Directors of Spotfire Inc. and
has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of nine journals. He
has consulted and lectured for many organizations including
Apple, AT&T, Citicorp, GE, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Library of Congress,
Microsoft, NASA, and university research groups.
Ben Shneiderman received his BS from City College of New York in
1968, his PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook in
1973. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1996 and was elected as
a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997.
Personal: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben
Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil
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Deborah Ward
Teaching and Learning Technology Officer
Birkbeck College
University of London
0171 631 6221
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