Ben Shneiderman
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Ben Shneiderman is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and founding director (1983 to 2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, where he remains a member. He also holds affiliate appointments in the Institute for Systems Research and the College of Information Studies (iSchool).
Shneiderman was elected as as an ACM fellow in 1997 and an AAAS fellow in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Shneiderman is also 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 internet. His move into information visualization spawned Spotfire, known for pharmaceutical drug discovery and genomic data analysis.
Shneiderman is a technical advisor for the treemap visualization producer, the Hive Group.
He 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 Catherine 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.
He received his doctorate in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1973.
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Publications
1982
1982. An architecture for automatic relational database sytem conversion. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 7(2):235-257.
1982. SYSTEM MESSAGE GUIDELINES: POSITIVE TONE, CONSTRUCTIVE, SPECIFIC, AND USER CENTERED. Gathering Information for Problem Formulation.
1982. Fighting for the User.. Bulletin of the American Society for Information ScienceBulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 9(2):27-29.
1981
1981. HUMAN FACTORS ISSUES IN DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS. Proceedings-Compcon. 25:116-116.
1981. Exploratory research on training aids for naive users of interactive systems. Proceedings of the 44th ASIS Annual Meeting. 18:65-67.
1981. Comments from a Letter Written on July 19, 1978. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. (4):370-371.
1981. Direct manipulation: A step beyond programming languages (abstract only). ACM SIGSOC Bulletin. 13(2-3):143-143.
1981. Human factors studies with system message styles (abstract only). ACM SIGSOC Bulletin. 13(2-3):138–-138–.
1981. Putting the human factor into systems development. Proceedings of the eighteenth annual computer personnel research conference. :1-13.
1981. A note on human factors issues of natural language interaction with database systems. Information Systems. 6(2):125-129.
1981. Human Aspects of Computing Editor Control Flow and Data Structure Documentation: Two Experiments. Human factors in software development. :365-365.
1980
1980. HUMAN FACTORS EXPERIMENTS FOR REFINING INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGNS. Proceedings-Compcon. 21:123-123.
1980. Automatic database system conversion: A transformation language approach to sub-schema implementation. IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference. :80-88.
1980. An experiment using memorization/reconstruction as a measure of programmer ability. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 13(3):339-354.
1980. Hardware options, evaluation metrics, and a design sequence for interactive information systems. Information & Management. 3(1):3-18.
1980. Human Factors of Software Design and Development. Software Configuration Management. :67-67.
1980. Path expressions for complex queries and automatic database program conversion. Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6. :33-44.
1980. Natural vs. precise concise languages for human operation of computers: research issues and experimental approaches. Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. :139-141.
1979
1979. Human Factors Experiments in Designing Interactive Systems. Computer. 12(12):9-19.
1979. Database Program Conversion: A Framework For Research. Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1979. :299-312.
1979. Syntactic/semantic interactions in programmer behavior: A model and experimental results. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 8(3):219-238.
1978
1978. Improving the human factors aspect of database interactions. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 3(4):417-439.
1978. Two experimental comparisons of relational and hierarchical database models. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 10(6):625-637.
1978. Information policy issues: selecting a policy framework and defining the schema horizon. Information & Management. 1(4):207-218.
1978. Jump searching: a fast sequential search technique. Communications of the ACM. 21(10):831-834.
1978. Personality and programming: Time-sharing vs. batch preference. Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference - Volume 2. :561-569.
1977
1977. Teaching programming: A spiral approach to syntax and semantics. Computers & Education. 1(4):193-197.
1977. Experimental investigations of the utility of detailed flowcharts in programming. Communications of the ACM. 20(6):373-381.
1977. Use of peer ratings in evaluating computer program quality. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual SIGCPR conference. :218-226.
1977. Evaluating introductory programming textbooks: A guide for students, instructors, authors and publishers. SIGCSE '77 Proceedings of the eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. 9:56-58.
1977. Measuring computer program quality and comprehension. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 9(4):465-478.
1977. Design, development and utilization perspectives on database management systems. Information Processing & Management. 13(1):23-33.
1977. Reduced combined indexes for efficient multiple attribute retrieval. Information Systems. 2(4):149-154.
1976
1976. Exploratory experiments in programmer behavior. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 5(2):123-143.
1976. Batched searching of sequential and tree structured files. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 1(3):268-275.
1976. Toward a theory of encoded data structures and data translation. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 5(1):33-43.
1976. Travels in computerland or incompatibilities and interfaces::, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1974. Information Processing & Management. 12(3):230-230.
1976. An internship in information systems: Combining computer science education with realistic problems. SIGCSE Bull.. 8(3):80-83.
1975
1975. Experimental testing in programming languages, stylistic considerations and design techniques. Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition. :653-656.
1975. Cognitive psychology and programming language design. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 10(7):46-47.
1974
1974. Opportunities for data base reorganization. ACM SIGMOD Record. 6(4):1-8.
1974. A model for optimizing indexed file structures. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 3(1):91-101.
1974. Structured data structures. Communications of the ACM. 17(10):566-574.
1974. The chemistry of control structures. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 9(12):29-34.
1973
1973. Optimum data base reorganization points. Communications of the ACM. 16(6):362-365.
1973. Flowchart techniques for structured programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 8(8):12-26.
1972
1972. A graph theoretic model of data structures. SIGIR Forum. 7(4):36-44.
1971
1971. Computer science education and social relevance. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 3(1):21-24.