BEN SHNEIDERMAN

Ben Shneiderman

Introduction

Ben Shneiderman is a lecturer in the Department of Computer research, Founding controller (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and constituent of the organisation for sophisticated Computer investigations at the University of Maryland at school reserve (full resume). He has educated previously at the State University of New York and at Indiana University. He was made a young person of the ACM in 1997, elected a young person of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001, and received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime accomplishment accolade in 2001. (Stuart 2006)

He was voted into office to the National Academy of technology in 2010: “For study, software development, and scholarly texts in relation to human-computer interaction and data visualization.” He was the Co-Chair of the ACM principle 98 seminar, May 1998 and is the Founding seating of the ACM seminar on Universal Usability, November 16-17, 2000. Ben Shneiderman's interest in creativity support tools led to organizing the June 2005 NSF workshop and to chairing the June 2007 seminar on Creativity & Cognition. (Fujawa 2006)

Work

In his previous work on revising programmers, he undertook experiments which proposed that flowcharts were not cooperative for writing, understanding, or modifying computer programs.

His major work in recent years has been on information visualization, originating the tree map concept for hierarchical data. He also developed dynamic queries sliders with multiple coordinated displays that are a key component of Spot fire, which was acquired by TIBCO in 2007. His work continued on visual analysis tools for time series data, Time Searcher, high dimensional data, Hierarchical Clustering Explorer, and social network data, Social Action plus Node XL. (Fujawa 2006)

In addition to his influential work in user interface design, he is known for the co-invention of the Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams, a graphical representation of the design of ...