[Asis-l] The Eyes Have It: User Interfaces for Information Visualization - Ben Shneiderman Talk (10/9)

[Kollet, Sharmon]

Ben Shneiderman will be giving a talk entitled "The Eyes Have It: User
Interfaces for Information Visualization" on the University of Maryland Campus
on Thursday, October 9, 2003.  The talk  will take place from 4:00pm-5:30pm
followed by a Q & A session in the AV Williams Building, Room 2460. 

Specific talk information is as follows:


The Eyes Have It: User Interfaces for Information Visualization 

Ben Shneiderman, Professor 
Computer Science Department 
Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

ABSTRACT 

Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely underutilized by current
graphical user interfaces.  The next generation of animated GUIs and visual data
mining tools can provide users with remarkable capabilities if designers follow
the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: 

Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand

Then dynamic queries allow user control of widgets, such as sliders and buttons
that update the result set within 100msec.  Seven types of information
visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional data, temporal, tree and network
data).  Demos include multi-dimensional data in dynamic scattergrams
(www.spotfire.com) and time series data applied to financial and genomic data
(www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher). 

Examples of hierarchical data presentations include treemaps
(www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap) for stock market data
(www.smartmoney.com/marketmap), production monitoring/product catalogs
(www.hivegroup.com), and Census data.  Demonstrations will be shown. 
  

BIO 

BEN SHNEIDERMAN (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a Member of the Institute for
Systems Research, Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding
Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/), and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer
Studies, all at the University of Maryland at 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. 

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" (4th ed. April 2004)
http://www.awl.com/DTUI/.  He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983,
and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web.   With S. Card and J.
Mackinlay, he co-authored "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision
to Think" (1999).  With Ben Bederson he co-authored "The Craft of Information
Visualization" (2003).  His book "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New
Computing Technologies" appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press)
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop). 

Host: Dr. Eyad Abed, Director, Institute for Systems Research 
  

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Peggy Y. Johnson 
Assistant to Dr. Eyad Abed, Director 
Institute for Systems Research 
University of Maryland 
2169 A.V. Williams Bldg. 
College Park, MD  20742 
Phone: 301-405-6615 
Fax: 301-314-9920 
E-mail: pjohnson at isr.umd.edu 
  
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