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9 unusual facts about Ben Shneiderman


Ben Shneiderman

Shneiderman has been criticized by others for over-promoting technology beyond its effective use, including by David F. Noble.

He also developed dynamic queries sliders with multiple coordinated displays that are a key component of Spotfire, which was acquired by TIBCO in 2007.

Jock D. Mackinlay

Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his 1999 published book, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, written and edited with Stuart K. Card and Ben Shneiderman.

Psychology of programming

In the first Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, Ben Shneiderman listed several important destinations for researchers.

Spotfire

Spotfire's origins trace back to the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park where, in the early 1990s, Christopher Ahlberg, a visiting student from Sweden, worked with Ben Shneiderman to develop applications of dynamic queries.

The Hive Group

Ben Shneiderman, the inventor of the treemap concept, is a member of The Hive Group’s Board of Advisors.

Ben Shneiderman: inventor of treemapping; founding director, Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park

Useware

This reinforces the principal demand for structured development of user-centered user interfaces expressed e.g. by Ben Shneiderman (Shneiderman, 1998).

Web science

An earlier definition was given by American computer scientist Ben Shneiderman: "Web Science" is a term that refers to processing the information available on the web in similar terms to those applied to natural environment.


Don Hopkins

He developed and refined pie menus for many platforms and applications including window managers, Emacs, SimCity and The Sims, and published a frequently cited paper about pie menus at CHI'88 with Jack Callahan, Ben Shneiderman and Mark Weiser.

Information visualization reference model

In 1999 Stuart Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, and Ben Shneiderman present their own interpretation of this pattern, dubbing it the information visualization reference model.


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