Ben Shneiderman

Publication List Details

Period

0000 - 2009

Number

697

Co-Authors

Searching Electronic Health Records for Temporal Patterns in Patient Histories: A Case Study with Microsoft Amalga (2009)

Catherine Plaisant, Stanley Lam, Ben Shneiderman

As electronic health records (EHR) become more widespread, they enable clinicians and researchers to pose complex queries that can benefit immediate patient care and deepen understanding of medical...

Visual Overviews for Discovering Key Papers and Influences Across Research Fronts (2009)

Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir Radev

Abstract: Gaining a rapid overview of an emerging scientific topic, sometimes called research fronts, is an increasingly common task due to the growing amount of interdisciplinary collaboration...

Extreme Visualization: Squeezing a Billion Records into a Million Pixels (2009)

Ben Shneiderman

Database searches are usually performed with query languages and form fill in templates, with results displayed in tabular lists. However, excitement is building around dynamic queries sliders and...

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data: Case studies and a user survey for the rank-by-feature framework (2009)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data is a challenging enterprise, but new visual analytic tools appear to offer users remarkable powers if they are ready to learn new concepts and interfaces....

A Node Aggregation Strategy to Reduce Complexity of Network Visualization using Semantic Substrates (2009)

Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman

Semantic substrates are spatial templates for networks, where nodes are grouped into regions and laid out within each region according to one or more node attributes. Analysts ’ ability to design...

Interactive Exploration of Versions across Multiple Documents (2009)

Chang-han Jong, Prahalad Rajkumar, Behjat Siddiquie, Tanya Clement, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

The need to compare two or more documents arises in a variety of situations. Some instances include detection of plagiarism in academic settings and comparing versions of computer programs. Extensive...

Human-Computer Interaction Lab, (2009)

Catherine Plaisant, Stanley Lam, Ben Shneiderman

As electronic health records (EHR) become more widespread, they enable clinicians and researchers to pose complex queries that can benefit immediate patient care and deepen understanding of medical...

Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks (2009)

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract — Social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a powerful method for understanding the importance of relationships in networks. However, interactive exploration of networks is currently...

Orderly Analysis of Social (2009)

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman

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Perceptual Interfaces and Reality (2009)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ramani Duraiswami

We present an Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-on-demand) modeled after the visual information seeking mantra [1]. We propose that data sonification...

vs Interface Agents (2009)

Ben Shneiderman

is a long-time proponent of direct manipulation for user interfaces. Direct manipulation affords the user control and predictability in their interfaces. Pattie Maes believes direct manipulation will...

From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web (2008)

Bill Kules, Max L. Wilson, Ben Shneiderman

A key to the Web's success is the power of search. The elegant way in which search results are returned is usually remarkably effective. However, for exploratory search in which users need to...

Network Visualization by Meaningful Substrates (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Networks have remained a challenge for information visualization designers because of the complex issues of node and link layout coupled with the rich set of tasks that users present. This paper...

ABSTRACT Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Direct manipulation user interfaces have proven their worth over two decades, but they are still in their youth. Dramatic opportunities exist to develop direct manipulation pro-gramming to create...

NASDAQ Velocity and Forces: An Interactive Visualization of Activity and Change (2008)

Huyen Tue Dao, Adam Bazinet, Robin Berthier, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract: NASDAQ Market Velocity and Market Forces are two relatively new data products that attempt to capture market sentiment, something that was previously only observable if one was on a trading...

Aligning Temporal Data by Sentinel Events: Discovering Patterns in Electronic Health Records (2008)

Taowei David Wang, Catherine Plaisant, Er J. Quinn, Roman Stanchak, Ben Shneiderman

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and other temporal databases contain hidden patterns that reveal important cause-and-effect phenomena. Finding these patterns is a challenge when using traditional...

Abstract Dynamic Queries for Information Exploration: An Implementation and Evaluation (2008)

Christopher Ahlberg, Christopher Williamson, Ben Shneiderman

We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynam”c queries, that allows users to formulate queries with gxztphical widgets, such as sliders....

Human-Computer interaction themes in digital government: web site comprehension and statistics visualization (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Digital government applications often involve web sites to provide information for citizens and visitors from essential services such as passport application or motor vehicle registration to...

University of Maryland: Three options for HCI Ph.D. education (2008)

Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman

HCI research in the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) has been strong for more than twenty-one years. In this paper we describe HCI classes that are offered by...

A Dual-View Approach to Interactive Network Visualization (2008)

Galileo Mark Namata, Lise Getoor, Brian Staats, Ben Shneiderman

Visualizing network data, from tree structures to arbitrarily connected graphs, is a difficult problem in information visualization. A large part of the problem is that in network data, users not...

Enabling Commuters to Find the Best Route: An Interface for Analyzing Driving History Logs (2008)

Makoto Konishi, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

{konishi, plaisant, ben} @ cs.umd.edu Abstract: This paper describes a prototype interface design for an automobile driving history log. It allows drivers to choose the best route among several...

2.2 An empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus (2008)

Jack Callahan, Don Hopkins, Mark Weiser, Ben Shneiderman

Menus are largely formatted in a linear fashion listing items from the top to bottom of the screen or window. Pull down menus are a common example of this format. Bitmapped computer displays,...

ABSTRACT Beyond Threads: Identifying Discussions in Email Archives (2008)

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman

Email archives have the promise of serving as great resources for historians and social scientists. However, making sense of the information in these archives is a challenge. Email messages are often...

Interrupted Coordinated Activities (2008)

Georg Apitz, Ben Bederson, Ben Shneiderman

The main goal of this paper is to describe insights found from an exploration of the field of coordinated activities. Many things that we do in our daily lives can be seen as coordinated activities,...

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA 1 Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-referenced Data (2008)

Haixia Zhao, Benjamin K. Smith, Kent Norman, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract—In this paper, we summarize the Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-ondemand). To improve blind access to geo-referenced statistical data, we...

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PERSPECTIVE-BASED USABILITY Abstract INSPECTION (2008)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that during usability inspection the success rate (percentage of problems detected) of each individual...

Abstract The Design of History Mechanisms and their Use in Collaborative Educational Simulations (2008)

Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Gary Rubloff, Richard Salter, Ben Shneiderman

Reviewing past events has been useful in many domains. Videotapes and flight data recorders provide invaluable technological help to sports coaches or aviation engineers. Similarly, providing...

3.1 Finding facts vs. browsing knowledge in hypertext systems (2008)

Gary Marchionini, Ben Shneiderman

For hypertext and electronic information systems to be effective, designers must understand how users find specific facts, locate fragments of text that satisfy information queries, or just browse....

Using Categorical Information in Multidimensional Data Sets: Interactive Partition and Cluster Comparison (2008)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Multidimensional data sets often include categorical information. When most columns have categorical information, clustering the data set by similarity of categorical values can reveal interesting...

Abstract: Universal Usability as a Stimulus to Advanced Interface Design (2008)

Ben Shneiderman, Harry Hochheiser

The desire to make computing available to broader populations has historically been a motivation for research and innovation that led to new breakthroughs in usability. Menus, graphical user...

User Frustration with technology in the workplace. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/newcomputing (2008)

Jonathan Lazar, Adam Jones, Katie Bessiere, Irina Ceaparu, Ben Shneiderman

When hard to use computers cause users to become frustrated, it can affect workplace productivity, user mood, and interactions with other co-workers. Previous research has examined the frustration...

Two formative studies (2008)

Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman

meaningful and stable categories to

Community Response Grids for Older Adults: Motivations, Usability, and Sociability (2008)

Philip Fei Wu, Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman, Paul T. Jaeger, Yan Qu, Qu Crg, ...

This paper discusses the motivation for a Community Response Grid (CRG) to help older adults improve their capability for coping with emergency situations. We define and discuss the concept of a CRG,...

Designing for Fun: (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Can we design user interfaces to be more fun?

Correspondence: (2008)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman, Jinwook Seo

1 Interactive exploration of multidimensional data sets is challenging because: (1) it is difficult to comprehend patterns in more than three dimensions, and (2) current systems often are a patchwork...

Design, Human Factors (2008)

Galileo Mark, Lise Getoor, Brian Staats, Ben Shneiderman

Visualizing network data, from tree structures to arbitrarily connected graphs, is a difficult problem in information visualization. A large part of the problem is that in network data, users not...

BEN SHNEIDERMAN, et al. design © Jane Nelson/Artville LLC. A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design (2008)

Ben Shneiderman, Bill Kules Catherine, Plaisant Anne Rose, Richesh Rucheir

from Personal to Public For 20 years I have been photographing personalities and events in the emerging discipline of human–computer interaction. Until now, only a few of these photos were...

Integrating (2008)

Anthony Don, Elena Zheleva, Machon Gregory, Sureyya Tarkan, Loretta Auvil, Tanya Clement, ...

interesting usage patterns in text collections:

2.3 Time stress effects on two menu selection systems (2008)

Daniel F. Wallace, Nancy S. Anderson, Ben Shneiderman

The optimal number of menu items per display screen has been the topic of considerable debate and study. On the one hand, some designers have packed many items into each menu to conserve space and...

Abstract Shape Search in Temporal Data to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery: A User Interface to Find Spikes, Sinks and Slopes (2008)

Machon Gregory, Anthony Don, Elena Zheleva, Sureyya Tarkan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

The ability to find interesting patterns in sequential datasets is important in both data analysis and knowledge discovery. Shapes, such as spikes, valleys, and increasing lines, created when...

ABSTRACT (2008)

Egemen Tanin, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large databases available to the world over the Internet. Current database front-ends do not give users information...

ABSTRACT Using Interactive Visualizations of WWW Log Data to Characterize Access Patterns and Inform Site Design (2008)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

944 POLICYFORUM PUBLIC HEALTH (2008)

Ben Shneiderman, Jennifer Preece

When individuals need help for medical emergencies or fires, most U.S. residents reach for their phones to dial 911. But when natural disasters, public health threats, or terrorist attacks occur that...

Expert Opinion Human Responsibility for Autonomous Agents (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Automobile airbag triggers and heart pacemakers require rapid automated reaction. Similarly, increasing numbers of computerized systems need only intermittent human control, such as planetary...

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information Seeking (2008)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Stephan Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

• Author(s): see above (2008)

Gary Marchionini, Stephanie Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Carol Hert

• Demo as well?: Yes, there will be a series of demos for the various interfaces

Perceptual Interfaces and Reality (2008)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ramani Duraiswami

We present an Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-on-demand) modeled after the visual information seeking mantra [1]. We propose that data sonification...

Building a Coherent Data Pipeline in Microarray Data Analyses: Optimization of Signal/Noise Ratios Using an Interactive Visualization Tool and a Novel Noise Filtering Method (2008)

Jinwook Seo, Marina Bakay, Yi-wen Chen, Sara Hilmer, Ben Shneiderman, Eric P Hoffman

Motivation: Sources of uncontrolled noise strongly influence data analysis in microarray studies, yet signal/noise ratios are rarely considered in microarray data analyses. We hypothesized that...

ABSTRACT Bi-level Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries: Algorithms for Design Optimization with Quantum Content (2008)

Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman

A frequently-used layout for a collection of two-dimensional, fixed aspect-ratio objects, such as photo thumbnails, is the grid, in which rows and columns are configured to match the allowed space....

DRAFT 6/25/2004 (2008)

Bill Kules, Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes a novel instantiation of a digital photo library in a public access system. It demonstrates how designers can utilize characteristics of a target user community (social...

Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting 1 (2008)

Paolo Buono, Catherine Plaisant, Adalberto Simeone, Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, Galit Shmueli, ...

Time-series forecasting has a large number of applications. Users with a partial time series for auctions, new stock offerings, or industrial processes desire estimates of the future behavior. We...

Interactive Auditory Data Exploration: A Framework and Evaluation with Geo-referenced Data (2008)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Jonathan Lazar

We describe an Action-by-Design-Component (ADC) framework to guide auditory interface designers for exploratory data analysis. The framework characterizes data interaction in the auditory mode as a...

Abstract Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchical Axes (2008)

Ben Shneiderman, David Feldman, Anne Rose

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Understanding Clusters in Multidimensional Spaces: Making Meaning by Combining Insights from Coordinated Views of Domain Knowledge (2008)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman, Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Cluster analysis of multidimensional data is widely used in many research areas including financial, economical, sociological, and biological analyses. Finding natural subclasses in a data set not...

Abstract Title of Dissertation: A Compact Graphical Representation of User Interface Interaction Objects (2008)

David Andrew Carr, Doctor Of Philosophy, Dissertation Professor, Ben Shneiderman

The design of new user-interface interaction objects (or widgets) remains a laborious process. The designer must translate the proposed widget into a computer language and install it in the graphical...

Drexel University (2008)

Ben Shneiderman, Gerhard Fischer, Mary Czerwinski, Mitch Resnick, Brad Myers, Linda Candy, ...

Creativity support tools is a research topic with high risk but potentially very high payoff. The goal is to develop improved software and user interfaces that empower users to be not only more...

Show me! Guidelines for producing recorded demonstrations (2008)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract. Although recorded demonstrations (screen capture animations with narration) have become a popular form of instruction for user interfaces, little work has been done to describe guidelines...

LISA HANEY Viewpoint (2008)

Ben Shneiderman

Here’s how it can awaken computer science to the interdisciplinary possibilities of the Web’s socially embedded computing technology. Much more than a provocative term, “Web science ” signals...

A framework for auditory data exploration and evaluation with geo-referenced data sonification", HCIL (2008)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

We first describe an Action-by-Design-Component (ADC) framework to guide auditory interface designs for exploratory data analysis. Applying the framework to the interactive sonification of...

2.1 Embedded menus: selecting items in context (2008)

Larry Koved, Ben Shneiderman

In many situations, embedded menus represent an attractive alternative to the more traditional explicit menus, particularly in touchtext, spelling checkers, language-based program editors, and...

2.1 Embedded menus: selecting items in context (2008)

Larry Koved, Ben Shneiderman

In many situations, embedded menus represent an attractive alternative to the more traditional explicit menus, particularly in touchtext, spelling checkers, language-based program editors, and...

From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web (2008)

Kules, William, Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., Shneiderman, Ben

A key to the Web's success is the power of search. The elegant way in which search results are returned is usually remarkably effective. However, for exploratory search in which users need to learn,...

From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web (2008)

Kules, William, Wilson, Max L., Schraefel, M.c., Shneiderman, Ben

A key to the Web's success is the power of search. The elegant way in which search results are returned is usually remarkably effective. However, for exploratory search in which users need to learn,...

Elastic Windows: A Hierarchical Multi-Window World-Wide Web Browser (2007)

Eser K, Ben Shneiderman

The World-Wide Web is becoming an invaluable source for the information needs of many users. However, current browsers are still primitive, in that they do not support many of the navigation needs of...

User Interfaces for a Complex Robotic Task: A Comparison of Tiled vs. Overlapped Windows (2007)

J. Corde Lane, J. Corde Lane, Steven P. Kuester, Steven P. Kuester, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

High complexity tasks, such as remote teleoperation of robotic vehicles, often require multiple windows. For these complex tasks, the windows necessary for task completion, may occupy more area than...

Coordinating Overviews and Detail Views of WWW Log Data (2007)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

Web server log analysis tools provide site operators with useful information regarding the visitors to their sites. Unfortunately, the utility of these tools is often limited by the use of aggregate...

debate vs Interface Agents (2007)

Ben Shneiderman, Pattie Maes

Ben Shneiderman is a long-time proponent of direct manipulation for user interfaces. Direct manipulation affords the user control and predictability in their interfaces. Pattie Maes believes direct...

AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PERSPECTIVE-BASED USABILITY Abstract INSPECTION (2007)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that during usability inspection the success rate (percentage of problems detected) of each individual...

The River Beyond the Rapids: Responsive Services for Responsible Users (2007)

Ben Shneiderman

Providing responsive services to all members of our society will require new corporate alliances that put the users and their needs ahead of the pursuit of new technology. Responsive systems are the...

MeSHBROWSE: A Tool for Browsing Medical Terms (2007)

Flip Korn And, Ben Shneiderman

Browsing is an interactive and exploratory process for information retrieval that has advantages over search term queries in many situations. Some browsers display a concept space as a node-link...

Booksites as Web-based Dynamic Supplements to Computer Science Textbooks (2007)

Roger J. Chapman, Ben Shneiderman

Computer science textbooks can be productively supplemented by web-based resources. No matter how well a book describes the state of the field when it is written, over time new topics will emerge and...

MeSHBROWSE: A Tool for Browsing Medical Terms (2007)

Flip Korn, Ben Shneiderman

Browsing is an interactive and exploratory process for information retrieval that has advantages over search term queries in many situations. Some browsers display a concept space as a node-link...

ISR-TR- Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information Seeking (2007)

Stephan Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2007)

Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman

This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype...

Improving Web-Based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 (2007)

Irina Ceaparu, Ben Shneiderman

An analysis of the home pages of all fifty U. S. states reveals great variety in key design features that influence efficacy. Some states had excessively large byte counts that would slow users...

Immediate Usability: Kiosk design principles from the CHI 2001 photo library. http: //citeseer.ist.psu.edu/571542.html (2007)

Bill Kules, Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes a novel set of design principles and guidelines for ensuring the immediate usability of public access systems. These principles and guidelines were formulated while developing...

Demo? Yes Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2007)

Bill Kules, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Catherine Plaisant

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Demo? No Designing a Metadata-Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2007)

Bill Kules, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

BEN SHNEIDERMAN, et al. design © Jane Nelson/Artville LLC. A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design (2007)

Ben Shneiderman, Bill Kules Catherine, Plaisant Anne Rose, Richesh Rucheir

from Personal to Public For 20 years I have been photographing personalities and events in the emerging discipline of human–computer interaction. Until now, only a few of these photos were...

, MD, (2007)

Catherine Plaisant, Richard Mushlin, Aaron Snyder, Jia Li, Dan Heller, Ben Shneiderman

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview...

1 User Interface Reengineering: Low-Effort, High-Payoff Strategies (2007)

Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman, Ajit J. Vanniamparampil

User interface technology has advanced rapidly in recent years. Incorporating new developments in existing systems could result in substantial improvements in usability, thereby improving performance...

1 Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces (2007)

Ben Shneiderman

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained if designers...

1 (2007)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

Widespread interest in discovering features and trends in time- series has generated a need for tools that support interactive exploration.This paper introduces timeboxes: a powerful graphical,...

Elastic Windows: Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations (2007)

Eser K, Ben Shneiderman

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 1980s ' technology. Due to advances in computers and display...

Final version 1 Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems (2007)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Khoa Doan, Tom Bruns

There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include increased data volume and complexity, accompanied by slow network access. This paper...

y (2007)

Khoa Doan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

In a networked information system, there are three major obstacles facing users in a querying process: network performance, data volume and data complexity. In order to overcome these obstacles, we...

ISR-TR- Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information Seeking (2007)

Stephan Greene, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

For: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (2007)

Ben Shneiderman

Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated...

Carlos Castaneda The Teachings of Don Juan (2007)

Ben Shneiderman

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is...

1 Organization Overviews and Role Management: Inspiration for Future Desktop Environments (2007)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

types of the newersystemsbeing prepared. We identified three problems that Bank employees regularly struggle with, and which are also significant problems outside the Bank: (1) Finding people who can...

1 Starfield Information Visualization with Interactive Smooth Zooming (2007)

Ninad Jog, Ben Shneiderman

This paper discusses the design and implementation of interactive smooth zooming of a starfield display (which is a visualization of a multi-attribute database) and introduces the zoom bar, a new...

1 Visual & Textual Consistency Checking Tools for Graphical User Interfaces (2007)

Rohit Mahajan, Ben Shneiderman

Designing a user interface with a consistent visual design and textual properties with current generation GUI development tools is cumbersome. SHERLOCK, a family of consistency checking tools, has...

The Center for Satellite and Hybrid Communication Networks is a NASA-sponsored Commercial Space (2007)

Center Also Supported, G. Atallah, M. Ball, J. Baras, S. Goli, R. Karne, ...

Today's telecommunications networks are becoming increasingly large, complex, mission critical and heterogeneous in several dimensions. For example, the underlying physical transmission...

Article type Software (2007)

Bmc Bioinformatics, Eric H Baehrecke, Eric H. Baehrecke, Eric H. Baehrecke, Niem Dang, Niem Dang, ...

This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. The fully-formatted PDF version will become available shortly after the date of publication, from the URL listed below....

Perceptual Interfaces and Reality (2007)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ramani Duraiswami

We present an Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-on-demand) modeled after the visual information seeking mantra [1]. We propose that data sonification...

Web Science: A Provocative Invitation to Computer Science (2007)

Shneiderman, Ben

Here's how [Web Science] can awaken computer science to the interdisciplinary possibilities of the Web's socially embedded computing technology.

Hawkeye: an interactive visual analytics tool for genome assemblies (2007)

Schatz, Michael C, Phillippy, Adam M, Shneiderman, Ben, Salzberg, Steven L

Abstract Genome sequencing remains an inexact science, and genome sequences can contain significant errors if they are not carefully examined. Hawkeye is our new visual analytics tool for genome...

Hawkeye: an interactive visual analytics tool for genome assemblies (2007)

Schatz, Michael C., Phillippy, Adam M., Shneiderman, Ben, Salzberg, Steven L.

Genome sequencing remains an inexact science, and genome sequences can contain significant errors if they are not carefully examined. Hawkeye is our new visual analytics tool for genome assemblies,...

Browsing large online data tables using generalized query previews (2007)

Egemen Tanin, Ben Shneiderman, Hairuo Xie

Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are making their data available to the world over the Internet. They often use large online relational tables for this purpose. Users query...

Creativity support tools: report from a U.S. National Science Foundation sponsored workshop (2006)

Shneiderman, Ben, Fischer, Gerhard, Czerwinski, Mary, Resnick, Mitch, Myers, Brad, Candy, Linda, ...

Creativity support tools is a research topic with high risk but potentially very high payoff. The goal is to develop improved software and user interfaces that empower users to be not only more...

Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks (2006)

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract — Social network analysis (SNA) has emerged as a powerful method for understanding the importance of relationships in networks. However, interactive exploration of networks is currently...

Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share (2006)

Ben Shneiderman, Benjamin B. Bederson, Steven M. Drucker

As digital photos become the standard media for personal photo taking, supporting users to explore those photos becomes a vital goal. Dominant strategies that have emerged involve innovative user...

Strategies for Evaluating Information Visualization Tools: Multi-Dimensional In-Depth Long-Term Case Studies (2006)

Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

After an historical review of evaluation methods, we describe an emerging research method called Multi-dimensional In-depth Long-term Case studies (MILCs) which seems well adapted to study the...

Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques (2006)

Bill Kules, Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman

When search results against digital libraries and web resources have limited metadata, augmenting them with meaningful and stable category information can enable better overviews and support user...

Severity and Impact of Computer User Frustration: A Comparison of Student and Workplace Users. Interacting with (2006)

Jonathan Lazar, Adam Jones, Mary Hackley, Ben Shneiderman

To be submitted to Interacting with Computers User frustration with information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays,...

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data: case studies and a user survey for an information visualization tool (2006)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data is a challenging enterprise, but new visual analytic tools appear to offer users remarkable powers if they are ready to learn new concepts and interfaces....

Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates (2006)

Ben Shneiderman, Senior Member, Aleks Aris

Abstract—Networks have remained a challenge for information visualization designers because of the complex issues of node and link layout coupled with the rich set of tasks that users present. This...

Nuclear envelope dystrophies show a transcriptional fingerprint suggesting disruption of Rb-MyoD pathways in muscle regeneration (2006)

Bakay, Marina, Wang, Zuyi, Melcon, Gisela, Schiltz, Louis, Xuan, Jianhua, Zhao, Po, ...

Mutations of lamin A/C (LMNA) cause a wide range of human disorders, including progeria, lipodystrophy, neuropathies and autosomal dominant Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD). EDMD is...

Nuclear envelope dystrophies show a transcriptional fingerprint suggesting disruption of Rb-MyoD pathways in muscle regeneration (2006)

Bakay, Marina, Wang, Zuyi, Melcon, Gisela, Schiltz, Louis, Xuan, Jianhua, Zhao, Po, ...

Mutations of lamin A/C (LMNA) cause a wide range of human disorders, including progeria, lipodystrophy, neuropathies and autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD). EDMD is also...

Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos (2000) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Kang, Hyunmo

Annotating photos is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing users to drag labels such as personal...

Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder (2000) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Software tools for personal photo collection management are proliferating, but they usually have limited searching and browsing functions. We implemented the PhotoFinder prototype to enable...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000) (2005)

Marchionini, Gary, Hert, Carol, Liddy, Liz, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews (2000) (2005)

Tanin, Egemen, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large databases available to the world over the Internet. Current database front-ends do not give users information...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000) (2005)

Christian, Kevin, Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Youssef, Adel

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

Coordinating Overviews and Detail Views of WWW Log Data (2000) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Web server log analysis tools provide site operators with useful information regarding the visitors to their sites. Unfortunately, the utility of these tools is often limited by the use of aggregate...

'I Hear the Pattern' Interactive Sonification of Geographical Data Patterns (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper we describe our investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data to vision impaired users. We...

Bridging the Digital Divide with Universal Usability (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn have one? How do you describe a top loss limit orderto retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that conveys...

Visual Specification of Queries for Finding Patterns in Time-Series Data (2001) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Widespread interest in discovering features and trends in time- series has generated a need for tools that support interactive exploration.This paper introduces timeboxes: a powerful graphical,...

Ordered Treemap Layouts (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Wattenberg, Martin

Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displays by controlling...

Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps (2001) (2005)

Dang, Gunjan, North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Users who must combine demographic, economic or other data in a geographic context are often hampered by the integration of tabular and map representations. Static, paper-based solutions limit the...

Enabling Commuters to Find the Best Route: An Interface for Analyzing Driving History Logs (2001) (2005)

Konishi, Makoto, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a prototype interface design for an automobile driving history log. It allows drivers to choose the best route among several alternatives for their common trips. Recorded data...

Browsing Large Online Data Tables Using Generalized Query Previews (2001) (2005)

Tanin, Egemen, Shneiderman, Ben

Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are making their data available to the world over the Internet. They often use large online relational tables for this purpose. Users query...

Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving...

Universal Usability as a Stimulus to Advanced Interface Design (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Hochheiser, Harry

The desire to make computing available to broader populations has historically been a motivation for research and innovation that led to new breakthroughs in usability. Menus, graphical user...

Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies (2001) (2005)

Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben, Wattenberg, Martin

Treemaps, a space- filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displays by controlling...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A Case Study with Web Logs (2001) (2005)

Tang, Lida, Shneiderman, Ben

Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that humans do...

Immediate Usability: Kiosk design principles from the CHI 2001 Photo Library (2001) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel set of design principles and guidelines for ensuring the immediate usability of public access systems. These principles and guidelines were formulated while developing...

Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2002) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben, Wolff, Gregory J

This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype...

Visual Queries for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Few tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation queries for studying time-series datasets. Timeboxes are the...

Dynamic Query Visualizations on World Wide Web Clients: A DHTML Solution for Maps and Scattergrams (2002) (2005)

Golub, Evan, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic queries are gaining popularity as a method for interactive information visualization. Many implementations have been made on personal computers, and there is increasing interest in web-based...

Understanding Hierarchical Clustering Results by Interactive Exploration of Dendrograms: A Case Study with Genomic Microarray Data (2002) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Hierarchical clustering is widely used to find patterns in multi-dimensional datasets, especially for genomic microarray data. Finding groups of genes with similar expression patterns can lead to...

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2002) (2005)

Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 participants, the...

Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States (2002) (2005)

Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

An analysis of the home pages of all fifty U. S. states reveals great variety in key design features that influence efficacy. Some states had excessively large byte counts that would slow users...

An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002) (2005)

Keogh, Eamonn, Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Relatively few query tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. In previous work we introduced Timeboxes. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation...

Severity and Impact of Computer User Frustration: A Comparison of Student and Workplace Users (2002) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Jones, Adam, Hackley, Mary, Shneiderman, Ben

User frustration with information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger confusion...

Social and Psychological Influences on Computer User Frustration (Newhagen book chapter, 2002) (2005)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus....

Image-Based Highly Interactive Web Mapping for Geo-Referenced Data Publishing (2002) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes an image-based technique that enables highly interactive Web choropleth maps for geo-referenced data publishing and visual exploration. Geographic knowledge is encoded into...

MediaFinder: An Interface for Dynamic Personal Media Management with Semantic Regions (2003) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Computer users deal with large amounts of personal media often face problems in managing and exploring it. This paper presents Semantic Regions, rectangular regions that enable users to specify their...

Designing a Metadata-Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

Dynamic Querying for Pattern Identification in Microarray and Genomic Data (2003) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Baehrecke, Eric H., Mount, Stephen M., Shneiderman, Ben

Data sets involving linear ordered sequences are a recurring theme in bioinformatics. Dynamic query tools that support exploration of these data sets can be useful for identifying patterns of...

Immediate Usability: A Case Study of Public Access Design for a Community Photo Library (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel instantiation of a digital photo library in a public access system. It demonstrates how designers can utilize characteristics of a target user community (social...

Dynamic Query Chloropleth Maps for Information Seeking and Decision Making (2003) (2005)

Norman, Kent L., Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben, Golub, Evan

Information retrieval and visualization can be combined in dynamic query systems that allow users unparalleled access to information for decision making. In this paper, we report on the development...

Interactive Color Mosaic and Dendogram Displays for Signal/Noise Optimization in Microarray Data Analysis (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Zhao, Po, Chen, Yi-Wen, Clarkson, Priscilla, Shneiderman, Ben, ...

Data analysis and visualization is strongly influenced by noise and noise filters. There are multiple sources of oisein microarray data analysis, but signal/noise ratios are rarely optimized,...

In vivo filtering of in vitro MyoD target data: An approach for identification of biologically relevant novel downstream targets of transcription factors (2003) (2005)

Zhao, Po, Seo, Jinwook, Wang, Zuyi, Wang, Yue, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

We report a novel approach to identification of downstream targets of MyoD, where a published set of candidate targets from a well-controlled in vitro experiment [1] is filtered for relevance to...

Help! I'm Lost: User Frustration in Web Navigation (2003) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

Computers can be valuable tools, and networked resources via the Internet can be beneficial to many different populations and communities. Unfortunately, when people are unable to reach their task...

Promoting Universal Usability with Multi-Layer Interface Design (2003) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Increased interest in universal usability is causing some researchers to study advanced strategies for satisfying first-time as well as intermittent and expert users. This paper promotes the idea of...

Building a Coherent Data Pipeline in Microarray Data Analyses: Optimization of Signal/Noise Ratios Using an Interactive Visualization Tool and a Novel Noise Filtering Method (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Chen, Yi-Wen, Hilmer, Sara, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

Motivation: Sources of uncontrolled noise strongly influence data analysis in microarray studies, yet signal/noise ratios are rarely considered in microarray data analyses. We hypothesized that...

Understanding Clusters in Multidimensional Spaces: Making Meaning by Combining Insights from Coordinated Views of Domain Knowledge (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Cluster analysis of multidimensional data is widely used in many research areas including financial, economical, sociological, and biological analyses. Finding natural subclasses in a data set not...

Exploring Personal Media: A Spatial Interface Supporting User-Defined Semantic Regions (2004) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Graphical mechanisms for spatially organizing personal media data could enable users to fruitfully apply their mental models. This paper introduces Semantic Regions, an innovative way for users to...

Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy (2004) (2005)

Chintalapani, Gouthami, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Treemaps is a visualization technique for presenting hierarchical information on two dimensional displays. Prior implementations limit the visualization to pre-defined static hierarchies. Flexible...

User Frustration with Technology in the Workplace (2004) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Jones, Adam, Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

When hard to use computers cause users to become frustrated, it can affect workplace productivity, user mood, and interactions with other co-workers. Previous research has examined the frustration...

A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Unsupervised Multidimensional Data Exploration Using Low Dimensional Projections (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Exploratory analysis of multidimensional data sets is challenging because of the difficulty in comprehending more than three dimensions. Two fundamental statistical principles for the exploratory...

Motivating Annotation for Digital Photographs: Lowering Barriers While Raising Incentives (2004) (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

Frameworks for understanding annotation requirements could guide improved strategies that would motivate more users to invest the necessary effort. We propose one framework for annotation techniques...

Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-Referenced Data (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Smith, Benjamin K., Norman, Kent L., Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper, we summarize the Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-ondemand). To improve blind access to geo-referenced statistical data, we developed...

Interactive Pattern Search in Time Series (2004) (2005)

Buono, Paolo, Aris, Aleks, Plaisant, Catherine, Khella, Amir, Shneiderman, Ben

The need for pattern discovery in long time series data led researchers to develop algorithms for similarity search. Most of the literature about time series focuses on algorithms that index time...

Designing for Fun: Can we design user interfaces to be more fun? (2004) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

User interfaces are taking their place in the world of fashion and style, which is great news. Just as dining out is more than getting a balanced diet and wearing clothes is more than staying warm,...

Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration (2004) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Timeboxes are rectangular widgets that can be used in direct-manipulation graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to specify query constraints on time series data sets. Timeboxes are used to specify...

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network (2004) (2005)

Marchionini, Gary, Haas, Stephanie, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Hert, Carol

Statistics support planning and decision making and enormous efforts are made to collect data and produce statistics at all levels of governance. An important principle of democratic societies is...

Why Not Make Interfaces Better than 3D Reality? (2004) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Some designers dream about building interfaces that approach the richness of 3D reality. They believe that the closer an interface resembles the real world, the easier the usage. They strive for...

A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Interactive exploration of multidimensional data sets is challenging because: (1) it is difficult to comprehend patterns in more than three dimensions, and (2) current systems often are a patchwork...

A Knowledge Integration Framework for Information Visualization (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Users can better understand complex data sets by combining insights from multiple coordinated visual displays that include relevant domain knowl-edge. When dealing with multidimensional data and...

 Hear the PatternInteractive Sonification of Geographical Data Patterns (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper we describe our investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data to vision impaired users. We...

Making Computer and Internet Usability a Priority (2000) (2005)

Kreitzberg, Charles B., Shneiderman, Ben

As usability professionals, we are all too aware of the productivity losses, frustration, and lost business that results from poorly designed user interfaces. And we are uncomfortable with the risks...

Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Microarray Data: Scatterplot Ordering, Gene Ontology Browser, and Profile Search (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Multidimensional data sets are common in many research areas, including microarray experiment data sets. Genome researchers are using cluster analysis to find meaningful groups in microarray data....

A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public (2002) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

For 20 years I have been photographing personalities and events in the emerging discipline of humanomputer interaction. Until now, only a few of these photos were published in newsletters or were...

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance (2003) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

The limits of speech recognition: Understanding acoustic memory and appreciating prosody (2000) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Human-human relationships are rarely a good model for the design of effective user interfaces. Spoken language is effective for human-human interaction (HHI), but it often has severe limitations when...

Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations (2005) (2005)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Although recorded demonstrations (screen capture animations with narration) have become a popular form of instruction for user interfaces, little work has been done to describe guidelines for their...

Categorized Graphical Overviews for Web Search Results: An Exploratory Study using U.S. Government Agencies as a Meaningful and Stable Structure (2004) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

Search engines are very effective at generating long lists of results that are highly relevant to user-provided query terms . But the lack of effective overviews presents challenges to users who seek...

Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale and Applications of Bi-Level Radial Quantum Layouts (2005) (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

Searching photo libraries can be made more satisfying and successful if search results are presented in a way that allows users to gain an overview of the photo categories. Since photo layouts on...

Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration (2005) (2005)

Aris, Aleks, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Shmueli, Galit, Jank, Wolfgang

Visualizing time series data is useful to support discovery of relations and patterns in financial, genomic, medical and other applications. In most time series, measurements are equally spaced over...

Generating and Querying Semantic Web Environments for Photo Libraries (2005) (2005)

Axelrod, Adam, Golbeck, Jennifer, Shneiderman, Ben

Online photo libraries require a method to efficiently search a collection of photographs, and retrieve photos with similar attributes. Our motivation was to incorporate an existing collection of...

Using Rhythms of Relationships to Understand Email Archives (2005)

Perer, Adam, Shneiderman, Ben, Oard, Douglas

Due to email ubiquitous nature, millions of users are intimate with the technology. However, most users are only familiar with managing their own email, which is an inherently different task than...

Knowledge Discovery in High Dimensional Data: Case Studies and a User Survey for an Information Visualization Tool (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data is a challenging enterprise, but new visual analytic tools appear to offer users remarkable powers if they are ready to learn new concepts and interfaces....

Bi-Level Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries: Algorithms for Design Optimization with Quantum Content (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

A frequently-used layout for a collection of two-dimensional, fixed aspect-ratio objects, such as photo thumbnails, is the grid, in which rows and columns are configured to match the allowed space....

Using Categorical Information in Multidimensional Data Sets: Interactive Partition and Cluster Comparison (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Multidimensional data sets often include categorical information. When most columns have categorical information, clustering the data set by similarity of categorical values can reveal interesting...

Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos (2000) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Kang, Hyunmo

Annotating photos is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing users to drag labels such as personal...

Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder (2000) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Software tools for personal photo collection management are proliferating, but they usually have limited searching and browsing functions. We implemented the PhotoFinder prototype to enable...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000) (2005)

Marchionini, Gary, Hert, Carol, Liddy, Liz, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews (2000) (2005)

Tanin, Egemen, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large databases available to the world over the Internet. Current database front-ends do not give users information...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000) (2005)

Christian, Kevin, Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Youssef, Adel

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

Coordinating Overviews and Detail Views of WWW Log Data (2000) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Web server log analysis tools provide site operators with useful information regarding the visitors to their sites. Unfortunately, the utility of these tools is often limited by the use of aggregate...

'I Hear the Pattern' Interactive Sonification of Geographical Data Patterns (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper we describe our investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data to vision impaired users. We...

Bridging the Digital Divide with Universal Usability (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn have one? How do you describe a top loss limit orderto retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that conveys...

Visual Specification of Queries for Finding Patterns in Time-Series Data (2001) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Widespread interest in discovering features and trends in time- series has generated a need for tools that support interactive exploration.This paper introduces timeboxes: a powerful graphical,...

Ordered Treemap Layouts (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Wattenberg, Martin

Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displays by controlling...

Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps (2001) (2005)

Dang, Gunjan, North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Users who must combine demographic, economic or other data in a geographic context are often hampered by the integration of tabular and map representations. Static, paper-based solutions limit the...

Enabling Commuters to Find the Best Route: An Interface for Analyzing Driving History Logs (2001) (2005)

Konishi, Makoto, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a prototype interface design for an automobile driving history log. It allows drivers to choose the best route among several alternatives for their common trips. Recorded data...

Browsing Large Online Data Tables Using Generalized Query Previews (2001) (2005)

Tanin, Egemen, Shneiderman, Ben

Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are making their data available to the world over the Internet. They often use large online relational tables for this purpose. Users query...

Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving...

Universal Usability as a Stimulus to Advanced Interface Design (2001) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben, Hochheiser, Harry

The desire to make computing available to broader populations has historically been a motivation for research and innovation that led to new breakthroughs in usability. Menus, graphical user...

Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies (2001) (2005)

Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben, Wattenberg, Martin

Treemaps, a space- filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displays by controlling...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A Case Study with Web Logs (2001) (2005)

Tang, Lida, Shneiderman, Ben

Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that humans do...

Immediate Usability: Kiosk design principles from the CHI 2001 Photo Library (2001) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel set of design principles and guidelines for ensuring the immediate usability of public access systems. These principles and guidelines were formulated while developing...

Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2002) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben, Wolff, Gregory J

This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype...

Visual Queries for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Few tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation queries for studying time-series datasets. Timeboxes are the...

Dynamic Query Visualizations on World Wide Web Clients: A DHTML Solution for Maps and Scattergrams (2002) (2005)

Golub, Evan, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic queries are gaining popularity as a method for interactive information visualization. Many implementations have been made on personal computers, and there is increasing interest in web-based...

Understanding Hierarchical Clustering Results by Interactive Exploration of Dendrograms: A Case Study with Genomic Microarray Data (2002) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Hierarchical clustering is widely used to find patterns in multi-dimensional datasets, especially for genomic microarray data. Finding groups of genes with similar expression patterns can lead to...

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2002) (2005)

Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 participants, the...

Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States (2002) (2005)

Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

An analysis of the home pages of all fifty U. S. states reveals great variety in key design features that influence efficacy. Some states had excessively large byte counts that would slow users...

An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002) (2005)

Keogh, Eamonn, Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Relatively few query tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. In previous work we introduced Timeboxes. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation...

Severity and Impact of Computer User Frustration: A Comparison of Student and Workplace Users (2002) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Jones, Adam, Hackley, Mary, Shneiderman, Ben

User frustration with information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger confusion...

Social and Psychological Influences on Computer User Frustration (Newhagen book chapter, 2002) (2005)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus....

Image-Based Highly Interactive Web Mapping for Geo-Referenced Data Publishing (2002) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes an image-based technique that enables highly interactive Web choropleth maps for geo-referenced data publishing and visual exploration. Geographic knowledge is encoded into...

MediaFinder: An Interface for Dynamic Personal Media Management with Semantic Regions (2003) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Computer users deal with large amounts of personal media often face problems in managing and exploring it. This paper presents Semantic Regions, rectangular regions that enable users to specify their...

Designing a Metadata-Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

Dynamic Querying for Pattern Identification in Microarray and Genomic Data (2003) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Baehrecke, Eric H., Mount, Stephen M., Shneiderman, Ben

Data sets involving linear ordered sequences are a recurring theme in bioinformatics. Dynamic query tools that support exploration of these data sets can be useful for identifying patterns of...

Immediate Usability: A Case Study of Public Access Design for a Community Photo Library (2003) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel instantiation of a digital photo library in a public access system. It demonstrates how designers can utilize characteristics of a target user community (social...

Dynamic Query Chloropleth Maps for Information Seeking and Decision Making (2003) (2005)

Norman, Kent L., Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben, Golub, Evan

Information retrieval and visualization can be combined in dynamic query systems that allow users unparalleled access to information for decision making. In this paper, we report on the development...

Interactive Color Mosaic and Dendogram Displays for Signal/Noise Optimization in Microarray Data Analysis (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Zhao, Po, Chen, Yi-Wen, Clarkson, Priscilla, Shneiderman, Ben, ...

Data analysis and visualization is strongly influenced by noise and noise filters. There are multiple sources of oisein microarray data analysis, but signal/noise ratios are rarely optimized,...

In vivo filtering of in vitro MyoD target data: An approach for identification of biologically relevant novel downstream targets of transcription factors (2003) (2005)

Zhao, Po, Seo, Jinwook, Wang, Zuyi, Wang, Yue, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

We report a novel approach to identification of downstream targets of MyoD, where a published set of candidate targets from a well-controlled in vitro experiment [1] is filtered for relevance to...

Help! I'm Lost: User Frustration in Web Navigation (2003) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

Computers can be valuable tools, and networked resources via the Internet can be beneficial to many different populations and communities. Unfortunately, when people are unable to reach their task...

Promoting Universal Usability with Multi-Layer Interface Design (2003) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Increased interest in universal usability is causing some researchers to study advanced strategies for satisfying first-time as well as intermittent and expert users. This paper promotes the idea of...

Building a Coherent Data Pipeline in Microarray Data Analyses: Optimization of Signal/Noise Ratios Using an Interactive Visualization Tool and a Novel Noise Filtering Method (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Chen, Yi-Wen, Hilmer, Sara, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

Motivation: Sources of uncontrolled noise strongly influence data analysis in microarray studies, yet signal/noise ratios are rarely considered in microarray data analyses. We hypothesized that...

Understanding Clusters in Multidimensional Spaces: Making Meaning by Combining Insights from Coordinated Views of Domain Knowledge (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Cluster analysis of multidimensional data is widely used in many research areas including financial, economical, sociological, and biological analyses. Finding natural subclasses in a data set not...

Exploring Personal Media: A Spatial Interface Supporting User-Defined Semantic Regions (2004) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben

Graphical mechanisms for spatially organizing personal media data could enable users to fruitfully apply their mental models. This paper introduces Semantic Regions, an innovative way for users to...

Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy (2004) (2005)

Chintalapani, Gouthami, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Treemaps is a visualization technique for presenting hierarchical information on two dimensional displays. Prior implementations limit the visualization to pre-defined static hierarchies. Flexible...

User Frustration with Technology in the Workplace (2004) (2005)

Lazar, Jonathan, Jones, Adam, Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

When hard to use computers cause users to become frustrated, it can affect workplace productivity, user mood, and interactions with other co-workers. Previous research has examined the frustration...

A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Unsupervised Multidimensional Data Exploration Using Low Dimensional Projections (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Exploratory analysis of multidimensional data sets is challenging because of the difficulty in comprehending more than three dimensions. Two fundamental statistical principles for the exploratory...

Motivating Annotation for Digital Photographs: Lowering Barriers While Raising Incentives (2004) (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

Frameworks for understanding annotation requirements could guide improved strategies that would motivate more users to invest the necessary effort. We propose one framework for annotation techniques...

Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-Referenced Data (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Smith, Benjamin K., Norman, Kent L., Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper, we summarize the Auditory Information Seeking Principle (AISP) (gist, navigate, filter, and details-ondemand). To improve blind access to geo-referenced statistical data, we developed...

Interactive Pattern Search in Time Series (2004) (2005)

Buono, Paolo, Aris, Aleks, Plaisant, Catherine, Khella, Amir, Shneiderman, Ben

The need for pattern discovery in long time series data led researchers to develop algorithms for similarity search. Most of the literature about time series focuses on algorithms that index time...

Designing for Fun: Can we design user interfaces to be more fun? (2004) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

User interfaces are taking their place in the world of fashion and style, which is great news. Just as dining out is more than getting a balanced diet and wearing clothes is more than staying warm,...

Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration (2004) (2005)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Timeboxes are rectangular widgets that can be used in direct-manipulation graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to specify query constraints on time series data sets. Timeboxes are used to specify...

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network (2004) (2005)

Marchionini, Gary, Haas, Stephanie, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Hert, Carol

Statistics support planning and decision making and enormous efforts are made to collect data and produce statistics at all levels of governance. An important principle of democratic societies is...

Why Not Make Interfaces Better than 3D Reality? (2004) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Some designers dream about building interfaces that approach the richness of 3D reality. They believe that the closer an interface resembles the real world, the easier the usage. They strive for...

A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Interactive exploration of multidimensional data sets is challenging because: (1) it is difficult to comprehend patterns in more than three dimensions, and (2) current systems often are a patchwork...

A Knowledge Integration Framework for Information Visualization (2004) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Users can better understand complex data sets by combining insights from multiple coordinated visual displays that include relevant domain knowl-edge. When dealing with multidimensional data and...

 Hear the PatternInteractive Sonification of Geographical Data Patterns (2004) (2005)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In this paper we describe our investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data to vision impaired users. We...

Making Computer and Internet Usability a Priority (2000) (2005)

Kreitzberg, Charles B., Shneiderman, Ben

As usability professionals, we are all too aware of the productivity losses, frustration, and lost business that results from poorly designed user interfaces. And we are uncomfortable with the risks...

Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Microarray Data: Scatterplot Ordering, Gene Ontology Browser, and Profile Search (2003) (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Multidimensional data sets are common in many research areas, including microarray experiment data sets. Genome researchers are using cluster analysis to find meaningful groups in microarray data....

A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public (2002) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

For 20 years I have been photographing personalities and events in the emerging discipline of humanomputer interaction. Until now, only a few of these photos were published in newsletters or were...

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance (2003) (2005)

Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

The limits of speech recognition: Understanding acoustic memory and appreciating prosody (2000) (2005)

Shneiderman, Ben

Human-human relationships are rarely a good model for the design of effective user interfaces. Spoken language is effective for human-human interaction (HHI), but it often has severe limitations when...

Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations (2005) (2005)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Although recorded demonstrations (screen capture animations with narration) have become a popular form of instruction for user interfaces, little work has been done to describe guidelines for their...

Categorized Graphical Overviews for Web Search Results: An Exploratory Study using U.S. Government Agencies as a Meaningful and Stable Structure (2004) (2005)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

Search engines are very effective at generating long lists of results that are highly relevant to user-provided query terms . But the lack of effective overviews presents challenges to users who seek...

Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale and Applications of Bi-Level Radial Quantum Layouts (2005) (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

Searching photo libraries can be made more satisfying and successful if search results are presented in a way that allows users to gain an overview of the photo categories. Since photo layouts on...

Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration (2005) (2005)

Aris, Aleks, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Shmueli, Galit, Jank, Wolfgang

Visualizing time series data is useful to support discovery of relations and patterns in financial, genomic, medical and other applications. In most time series, measurements are equally spaced over...

Generating and Querying Semantic Web Environments for Photo Libraries (2005) (2005)

Axelrod, Adam, Golbeck, Jennifer, Shneiderman, Ben

Online photo libraries require a method to efficiently search a collection of photographs, and retrieve photos with similar attributes. Our motivation was to incorporate an existing collection of...

Using Rhythms of Relationships to Understand Email Archives (2005)

Perer, Adam, Shneiderman, Ben, Oard, Douglas

Due to email ubiquitous nature, millions of users are intimate with the technology. However, most users are only familiar with managing their own email, which is an inherently different task than...

Knowledge Discovery in High Dimensional Data: Case Studies and a User Survey for an Information Visualization Tool (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Knowledge discovery in high dimensional data is a challenging enterprise, but new visual analytic tools appear to offer users remarkable powers if they are ready to learn new concepts and interfaces....

Bi-Level Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries: Algorithms for Design Optimization with Quantum Content (2005)

Kustanowitz, Jack, Shneiderman, Ben

A frequently-used layout for a collection of two-dimensional, fixed aspect-ratio objects, such as photo thumbnails, is the grid, in which rows and columns are configured to match the allowed space....

Using Categorical Information in Multidimensional Data Sets: Interactive Partition and Cluster Comparison (2005)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Multidimensional data sets often include categorical information. When most columns have categorical information, clustering the data set by similarity of categorical values can reveal interesting...

With Thanks to: (2005)

Alison Flind, Susie Catterall, Lyn Robins, Christine Flind, Ben Shneiderman, Cliff Nass, ...

Some interface designers believe that giving a computer human characteristics is wrong, as it may confuse or mislead users. However it has been repeatedly proven that many users do interact with...

Meaningful presentations of photo libraries: Rationale and applications of bi-level radial quantum layouts (2005)

Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman

Searching photo libraries can be made more satisfying and successful if search results are presented in a way that allows users to gain an overview of the photo categories. Since photo layouts on...

I hear the pattern - interactive sonification of geographical data patterns", (Extended Abstracts (2005)

Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

In this paper we describe our investigation of using interactive sonification (non-speech sound) to present the geographical distribution pattern of statistical data to vision impaired users. We...

Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion (2005)

Ben Shneiderman, Benjamin B. Bederson

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial...

Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration (2005)

Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank

Abstract. Visualizing time series data is useful to support discovery of relations and patterns in financial, genomic, medical and other applications. In most time series, measurements are equally...

Using Rhythms of Relationships to Understand Email Archives (2005)

Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman, Douglas W. Oard

Abstract. Due to email’s ubiquitous nature, millions of users are intimate with the technology. However, most users are only familiar with managing their own email, which is an inherently different...

A Knowledge Integration Framework for Information Visualization (2005)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract. Users can better understand complex data sets by combining insights from multiple coordinated visual displays that include relevant domain knowledge. When dealing with multidimensional data...

Department of Decision and Information Technologies, (2005)

Galit Shmueli, Wolfgang Jank, Aleks Aris, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

We introduce AuctionExplorer, a suite of tools for exploring databases of online auctions. The suite combines tools for collecting, processing, and interactively exploring auction attributes (e.g,...

Browsing Large Online Data Tables Using Generalized Query Previews * (2005)

Egemen Tanin, Ben Shneiderman, Hairuo Xie

Companies, government agencies, and other organizations are making their data available to the world over the Internet. They often use large online relational tables for this purpose. Users query...

Exploring Personal Media: A Spatial Interface Supporting User-defined Semantic Regions (2005)

Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman

Graphical mechanisms for spatially organizing personal media data could enable users to fruitfully apply their conceptual models. This paper introduces Semantic Regions, an innovative way for users...

Visualization and analysis of microarray and gene ontology data with treemaps (2004)

Baehrecke, Eric H, Dang, Niem, Babaria, Ketan, Shneiderman, Ben

Abstract Background The increasing complexity of genomic data presents several challenges for biologists. Limited computer monitor views of data complexity and the dynamic nature of data in the midst...

Social and psychological influences on computer user frustration (2004)

Katie Bessiere, Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus....

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2004)

Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, Katie Bessiere, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 subjects, the...

A rank-by-feature framework for unsupervised multidimensional data exploration using low dimensional projections (2004)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Exploratory analysis of multidimensional data sets is challenging because of the difficulty in comprehending more than three dimensions. Two fundamental statistical principles for the exploratory...

Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy (2004)

Gouthami Chintalapani, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Treemaps is a visualization technique for presenting hierarchical information on two dimensional displays. Prior implementations limit the visualization to predefined static hierarchies. Flexible...

in press). Finding Governmental Statistical Data on the Web: Three Empirical Studies of the FedStats Topics Page (2004)

Irina Ceaparu, Ben Shneiderman

Governmental agencies provide statistical data on their web sites. These large collections of data need appropriate interfaces that would guide the general public, as well as the researchers, to...

A rank-by-feature framework for unsupervised multidimensional data exploration using low dimensional projections (2004)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Exploratory analysis of multidimensional data sets is challenging because of the difficulty in comprehending more than three dimensions. Two fundamental statistical principles for the exploratory...

Personal Role Management: Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students (2004)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, H. Ross Baker, Nicolas B. Duarte, Aydin Haririnia, Dawn E. Klinesmith, ...

Evidence is accumulating about the difficulties that users have in managing their work using contemporary graphical user interfaces. Current designs offer a hierarchy of folders containing documents...

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2004)

Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, Katie Bessiere, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 participants, the...

Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy (2004)

Gouthami Chintalapani, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Treemaps is a visualization technique for presenting hierarchical information on two dimensional displays. Prior implementations limit the visualization to predefined static hierarchies. Flexible...

Optimizing signal/noise ratios in expression profiling: project-specific algorithm selection and detection p value weighting in affymetrix microarrays (2004)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Chen, Yi-Wen, Hilmer, Sara, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

Motivation: The most commonly utilized microarrays for mRNA profiling (Affymetrix) include "probe sets" of a series of perfect match and mismatch probes (typically 22 oligonucleotides per probe set)....

Interactively optimizing signal-to-noise ratios in expression profiling: project-specific algorithm selection and detection p-value weighting in Affymetrix microarrays (2004)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Chen, Yi-Wen, Hilmer, Sara, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P

Motivation: The most commonly utilized microarrays for mRNA profiling (Affymetrix) include ‘probe sets’ of a series of perfect match and mismatch probes (typically 22 oligonucleotides per probe...

Optimizing signal/noise ratios in expression profiling: project-specific algorithm selection and detection p value weighting in affymetrix microarrays (2004)

Seo, Jinwook, Bakay, Marina, Chen, Yi-Wen, Hilmer, Sara, Shneiderman, Ben, Hoffman, Eric P.

Motivation: The most commonly utilized microarrays for mRNA profiling (Affymetrix) include "probe sets" of a series of perfect match and mismatch probes (typically 22 oligonucleotides per probe set)....

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance (2003)

Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: Multi-Layered Interfaces and Integrated Initial Guidance (2003)

Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003)

Zhao, Haixia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

Designing a Metadata -Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2003)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

Designing a Metadata -Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2003)

Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

Image-based highly interactive Web mapping for geo-referenced data publishing (2003)

Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes an image-based technique that enables highly interactive Web choropleth maps for geo-referenced data publishing and visual exploration. Geographic knowledge is encoded into...

Image-based highly interactive Web mapping for geo-referenced data publishing (2003)

Zhao, Haixia, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes an image-based technique that enables highly interactive Web choropleth maps for geo-referenced data publishing and visual exploration. Geographic knowledge is encoded into...

The Craft of Information Visualization : Readings and Reflections (2003)

Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben

Contenido: Descubrimiento de bases de datos con preguntas dinámicas; Ver el mundo a través de bibliotecas de imágenes; Preservación del contexto con interfaces de usuario con zoom; La...

Timebox (2003)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

Dynamic query tools for time series data sets:

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces (2003)

Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

Academy of Sciences (2003)

Author(s) Haixia Zhao, Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003)

Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Data Exploration with Paired Hierarchical Visualizations: Initial Designs of PairTrees (2003)

Bill Kules Ben, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Paired hierarchical visualizations (PairTrees) integrate treemaps, node-link diagrams, choropleth maps and other information visualization techniques to support exploration of hierarchical data sets...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003)

Haixia Zhao Ben, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Dmitry N. Zotkin, Ramani Duraiswami

We demonstrate three versions of YMap, a dynamic choropleth map tool for geo-referenced statistical data explorations. More details can be found in (Zhao et al. 2003) First we present the Visual...

Immediate Usability: A case study of public access design for a community photo library (2003)

Bill Kules Hyunmo, Bill Kules, Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes a novel instantiation of a digital photo library in a public access system. It demonstrates how designers can utilize characteristics of a target user community (social...

Designing a Metadata-Driven Visual Information Browser for Federal Statistics (2003)

Bill Kules And, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman

When looking for federal statistics, finding the right table, chart or report can be a daunting task for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the federal statistical system. Search tools help, but...

New Approaches to Help Users Get Started with Visual Interfaces: (2003)

Hyunmo Kang, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

We are investigating new ways to help users learn to use public access interactive tools, in particular for the visual exploration of government statistics. Our work led to a series of interfaces...

Toward a Statistical Knowledge Network (2003)

Gary Marchionini Stephanie, Stephanie Haas, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Carol Hert

This paper describes an architecture for a statistical knowledge network that depends on user interfaces as the glue among the components. These interfaces aim to serve non-expert users with diverse...

Mediafinder: An interface for dynamic personal media management with semantic regions (2003)

Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman

Computer users deal with large amounts of personal media often face problems in managing and exploring it. This paper presents Semantic Regions, rectangular regions that enable users to specify their...

Dynamic Query Chloropleth Maps for Information Seeking and Decision Making (2003)

Kent L. Norman, Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Evan Golub

Information retrieval and visualization can be combined in dynamic query systems that allow users unparalleled access to information for decision making. In this paper, we report on the development...

Interactive Color Mosaic and Dendrogram Displays for Signal/Noise Optimization (2003)

Jinwook Seo, Marina Bakay, Po Zhao, Yi-wen Chen, Priscilla Clarkson, Ben Shneiderman, ...

4 The first two authors contributed equally to this manuscript Data analysis and visualization is strongly influenced by noise and noise filters. There are multiple sources of “noise ” in...

Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003)

Haixia Zhao, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

We demonstrate three versions of YMap, a dynamic choropleth map tool for geo-referenced statistical data explorations. More details can be found in (Zhao et al. 2003) First we present the Visual...

Promoting Universal Usability with Multi-layer Interface Design (2003)

Ben Shneiderman

Increased interest in universal usability is causing some researchers to study advanced strategies for satisfying first-time as well as intermittent and expert users. This paper promotes the idea of...

Dynamic querying for pattern identification in microarray and genomic data (2003)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

Data sets involving linear ordered sequences are a recurring theme in bioinformatics. Dynamic query tools that support exploration of these data sets can be useful for identifying patterns of...

Help! I'm Lost: User Frustration in Web Navigation (2003)

Jonathan Lazar, Katie Bessiere, Irina Ceaparu, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman, User Frustration Lazar

Computers can be valuable tools, and networked resources via the Internet can be beneficial to many different populations and communities. Unfortunately, when people are unable to reach their task...

In vivo filtering of in vitro MyoD target data: An approach for identification of biologically relevant novel downstream targets of transcription factors. (2003)

Po Zhao Jinwook, Po Zhao, Jinwook Seo, Zuyi Wang, Yue Wang, Ben Shneiderman, ...

We report a novel approach to identification of downstream targets of MyoD, where a published set of candidate targets from a well- controlled in vitro experiment [1] is filtered for relevance to...

Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Microarray Data: Scatterplot Ordering, Gene Ontology Browser, and Profile Search (2003)

Jinwook Seo, Ben Shneiderman

Motivation: Multidimensional data sets are common in many research areas, including microarray experiment data sets. Genome researchers are using cluster analysis to find meaningful groups in...

Academy of Sciences (2003)

Author(s) Haixia Zhao, Haixia Zhao, Catherine Plaisant, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

Several technology breakthroughs are needed to achieve the goals of universal accessibility and usability. These goals are especially challenging in the case of geo-referenced statistical data that...

Media Conversion from Visual to Audio: Voice Browsers (2002)

Youssef, Adel, Shneiderman, Ben

There is a large amount of information on the World Wide Web that is at the fingertips of anyone with access to the internet. However, so far this information has primarily been used by people who...

Media Conversion from Visual to Audio: Voice Browsers (2002)

Youssef, Adel, Shneiderman, Ben

There is a large amount of information on the World Wide Web that is at the fingertips of anyone with access to the internet. However, so far this information has primarily been used by people who...

An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002)

Keogh, Eamonn, Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Relatively few query tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. In previous work we introduced Timeboxes. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation...

Understanding Computer User Frustration: Measuring and Modeling the Disruption from Poor Designs (2002)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

User frustration in the use of information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger...

Social and Psychological Influences on Computer User Frustration (2002)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus....

An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002)

Keogh, Eamonn, Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Relatively few query tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. In previous work we introduced Timeboxes. Timeboxes are rectangular, direct-manipulation...

Understanding Computer User Frustration: Measuring and Modeling the Disruption from Poor Designs (2002)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

User frustration in the use of information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger...

Social and Psychological Influences on Computer User Frustration (2002)

Bessiere, Katie, Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus....

Understanding Hierarchical Clustering Results by Interactive Exploration of Dendrograms: A Case Study with Genomic Microarray Data (2002)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Abstract: Hierarchical clustering is widely used to find patterns in multi-dimensional datasets, especially for genomic microarray data. Finding groups of genes with similar expression patterns can...

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2002)

Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 subjects, the...

Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States (2002)

Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

An analysis of the home pages of all fifty U. S. states reveals great variety in key design features that influence efficacy. Some states had excessively large byte counts that would slow users...

Understanding Hierarchical Clustering Results by Interactive Exploration of Dendrograms: A Case Study with Genomic Microarray Data (2002)

Seo, Jinwook, Shneiderman, Ben

Abstract: Hierarchical clustering is widely used to find patterns in multi-dimensional datasets, especially for genomic microarray data. Finding groups of genes with similar expression patterns can...

Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2002)

Ceaparu, Irina, Lazar, Jonathan, Bessiere, Katie, Robinson, John, Shneiderman, Ben

While computers are beneficial to individuals and society, frequently, users encounter frustrating experiences when using computers. This study attempts to measure, through 111 subjects, the...

Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States (2002)

Ceaparu, Irina, Shneiderman, Ben

An analysis of the home pages of all fifty U. S. states reveals great variety in key design features that influence efficacy. Some states had excessively large byte counts that would slow users...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A case study with web logs (2002)

Tang, Lida, Shneiderman, Ben

Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that humans do...

Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2002)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben, Wolff, Gregory J.

This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A case study with web logs (2002)

Tang, Lida, Shneiderman, Ben

Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that humans do...

Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2002)

Kang, Hyunmo, Shneiderman, Ben, Wolff, Gregory J.

This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has been designed and implemented as a prototype...

Understanding Computer User Frustration: Measuring and Modeling the Disruption from Poor Designs (2002)

Katie Bessiere, Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman

User frustration in the use of information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger...

An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002)

Eamonn Keogh, Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract. Relatively few query tools exist for data exploration and pattern identification in time series data sets. In previous work we introduced Timeboxes. Timeboxes are rectangular,...

Dynamic Query Visualizations on World Wide Web Clients: A DHTML Solution for Maps and Scattergrams (2002)

Evan Golub, Ben Shneiderman

Dynamic queries are gaining popularity as a method for interactive information visualization. Many implementations have been made on personal computers, and there is increasing interest in web-based...

Understanding Computer User Frustration: Measuring and Modeling the Disruption from Poor Designs (2002)

Katie Bessiere Irina, Irina Ceaparu, Jonathan Lazar, John Robinson, Ben Shneiderman

User frustration in the use of information and computing technology is a pervasive and persistent problem. When computers crash, network congestion causes delays, and poor user interfaces trigger...

Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data mining (2002)

Ben Shneiderman

The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in the importance of giving...

Dynamic query visualizations on world wide web clients: A DHTML solution for maps and scattergrams (2002)

Evan Golub, Ben Shneiderman

Dynamic queries are gaining popularity as a method for interactive information visualization. Many implementations have been made on personal computers, and there is increasing interest in web-based...

Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies (2002)

Benjamin B. Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Martin Wattenberg

Treemaps, a space-filling method of visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been proposed to create more useful displays by controlling...

Bridging the Digital Divide with Universal Usability (2001)

Shneiderman, Ben

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn't have one? How do you describe a "stop loss limit order" to retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that conveys the...

Bridging the Digital Divide with Universal Usability (2001)

Shneiderman, Ben

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn't have one? How do you describe a "stop loss limit order" to retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that conveys the...

Universal Usability statements: Marking the trail for all users (2001)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Signposts at ski areas help skiers to choose slopes that match their skills and equipment. They describe easy, intermediate and expert trails, indicate which ones are groomed, and give their length...

Universal Usability statements: Marking the trail for all users (2001)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

Signposts at ski areas help skiers to choose slopes that match their skills and equipment. They describe easy, intermediate and expert trails, indicate which ones are groomed, and give their length...

Immediate Usability: Kiosk design principles from the CHI 2001 Photo Library (2001)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel set of design principles and guidelines for ensuring the immediate usability of public access systems. These principles and guidelines were formulated while developing...

Immediate Usability: Kiosk design principles from the CHI 2001 Photo Library (2001)

Kules, Bill, Kang, Hyunmo, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel set of design principles and guidelines for ensuring the immediate usability of public access systems. These principles and guidelines were formulated while developing...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A Case Study with Web Logs (2001)

Lida Tang, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract. Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that...

CUU: Bridging the digital divide with universal usability (pp (2001)

Ben Shneiderman

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn’t have one? How do you describe a “stop loss limit order ” to retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that...

Are Agents an Answer or a Question (2001)

Joseph A. Goguen, Ben Shneiderman, Jaron Lanier

This short position paper attempts to place current debates about the efficacy and morality of "intelligent agents " into a larger historical context that includes the work of Kant,...

Using interactive visualizations of WWW log data to characterize access patterns and inform site design (2001)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: (2001)

Case Study With, Lida Tang, Ben Shneiderman

Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that humans do...

Component-based, user-constructed, multiple-view visualization (2001)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

A major hindrance to the usage of information visualization in common tasks is that typically a new visualization interface must be custom programmed to suit each task. This video demonstrates a...

CUU: Bridging the digital divide with universal usability (pp (2001)

Ben Shneiderman

How do you explain a trashcan to a culture that doesn’t have one? How do you describe a “stop loss limit order ” to retirees managing their funds? Can you design a text-only interface that...

Dynamic Aggregation to Support Pattern Discovery: A Case Study with Web Logs (2001)

Lida Tang, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract. Rapid growth of digital data collections is overwhelming the capabilities of humans to comprehend them without aid. The extraction of useful data from large raw data sets is something that...

COMMENTARY Inventing discovery tools: combining information visualization with data mining { (2001)

Ben Shneiderman

www.palgrave-journals.com/ivs The growing use of information visualization tools and data mining algorithms stems from two separate lines of research. Information visualization researchers believe in...

Making Computer and Internet Usability a Priority (2000)

Kreitzberg, Charles B., Shneiderman, Ben

A management oriented essay on how to promote usability in organizations. It begins with crafting the message (Good usability is good business). Then it deals with creating a cultural shift in...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (2000)

Zhang, Zhijun, Basili, Victor, Shneiderman, Ben

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ineffective. We developed perspective-based...

Making Computer and Internet Usability a Priority (2000)

Kreitzberg, Charles B., Shneiderman, Ben

A management oriented essay on how to promote usability in organizations. It begins with crafting the message (Good usability is good business). Then it deals with creating a cultural shift in...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (2000)

Zhang, Zhijun, Basili, Victor, Shneiderman, Ben

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ineffective. We developed perspective-based...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000)

Christian, Kevin, Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Youssef, Adel

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000)

Christian, Kevin, Kules, Bill, Shneiderman, Ben, Youssef, Adel

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000)

Marchionini, Gary, Hert, Carol, Liddy, Liz, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000)

Marchionini, Gary, Hert, Carol, Liddy, Liz, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Domain Name Based Visualization of Web Histories in a Zoomable User Interface (2000)

Gandhi, Rajiv, Kumar, Girish, Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben

Users of hypertext systems like the World Wide Web (WWW) often find themselves following hypertext links deeper and deeper, only to become "lost" and unable to find their way back to the...

Previews and overviews in digital libraries: Designing surrogates to support visual information seeking (2000)

Stephan Greene, Gary Marchionini, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

To aid designers of digital library interfaces, we present a framework for the design of information representations in terms of previews and overviews. Previews and overviews are graphic or textual...

Facilitating Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference, Behaviour & Information Technology (to appear (2000)

Egemen Tanin, Amnon Lotem, Ihab Haddadin, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Laura Slaughter

Abstract. Networked and local data exploration systems that use command languages, menus, or form fillin interfaces rarely give users an indication of the distribution of data. This often leads users...

Browsing Large Online Data with Query Previews (2000)

Egemen Tanin, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large data available to the world over the Internet. Current front-ends rarely give users information about the...

Supporting creativity with powerful composition tools for artifacts and performances (2000)

Ben Shneiderman

Modern software such as word processors, slide preparation/presentation tools, or music composition packages are designed to produce artifacts or performances. Now, some designers are expanding their...

Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes (2000)

Ben Shneiderman, David Feldman, Anne Rose, Xavier Ferré Grau

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes (2000)

Ben Shneiderman, David Feldman, Anne Rose, Xavier Ferrd Grau

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (2000)

Ben Shneiderman

"I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings."-- Thomas Jefferson,...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000)

Kevin Christian, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Adel Youssef

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

Browsing Large Online Data with Query Previews (2000)

Egemen Tanin, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Companies, government agencies, and other types of organizations are making their large data available to the world over the Internet. Current front-ends rarely give users information about the...

Extending understanding of federal statistics in tables (2000)

Gary Marchionini, Carol Hert, Liz Liddy, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Visualizing digital library search results with categorical and hierarchical axes (2000)

Ben Shneiderman, David Feldman, Anne Rose, Xavier Ferré Grau

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000)

Kevin Christian, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Adel Youssef

Voice controlled web browsers allow users to navigate by speaking the text of a link or an associated number instead of clicking with a mouse. One such browser is Conversa, by Conversational...

Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos (2000)

Ben Shneiderman, Hyunmo Kang

Annotating photos is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing users to drag labels such as personal...

Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000)

Gary Marchionini Carol, Carol Hert, Liz Liddy, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Domain Name Based Visualization of Web Histories in a Zoomable User Interface (2000)

Rajiv Gandhi Girish, Rajiv G, Girish Kumar, Ben Bederson, Ben Shneiderman

Users of hypertext systems like the World WideWeb (WWW) often find themselves following hypertext links deeper and deeper, only to find themselves "lost" and unable to find their way back...

Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder (2000)

Hyunmo Kang Ben, Ben Shneiderman

Software tools for personal photo collection management are proliferating, but they usually have limited searching and browsing functions. We implemented the PhotoFinder prototype to enable...

Snap-Together Visualization: A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations via Relational Schemata (2000)

Chris North Ben, Ben Shneiderman

Multiple coordinated visualizations enable users to rapidly explore complex information. However, users often need unforeseen combinations of coordinated visualizations that are appropriate for their...

Snap-Together Visualization: Evaluating Coordination Usage and Construction (2000)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

Multiple coordinated visualizations enable users to rapidly explore complex information. However, users often need unforeseen combinations of coordinated visualizations. Snap-Together Visualization...

Snap-Together Visualization: A User Interface for Coordinating Visualizations via Relational Schemata (2000)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

Multiple coordinated visualizations enable users to rapidly explore complex information. However, users often need unforeseen combinations of coordinated visualizations that are appropriate for their...

The limits of speech recognition (2000)

Ben Shneiderman

Understanding acoustic memory and appreciating prosody

Visualization methods for personal photo collections: Browsing and searching (2000)

Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman

Software tools for personal photo collection management are proliferating, but they usually have limited searching and browsing functions. We implemented the PhotoFinder prototype to enable...

Extending understanding of federal statistics in tables (2000)

Gary Marchionini, Carol Hert, Liz Liddy, Ben Shneiderman

This paper describes progress toward improving user interfaces for US Federal government statistics that are presented in tables. Based on studies of user behaviors and needs related to statistical...

Visualization methods for personal photo collections: Browsing and searching (2000)

Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman

Software tools for personal photo collection management are proliferating, but they usually have limited searching and browsing functions. We implemented the PhotoFinder prototype to enable...

Facilitating Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference, Behaviour & Information Technology (to appear (2000)

Egemen Tanin, Amnon Lotem, Ihab Haddadin, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Laura Slaughter

Current networked and local data exploration systems that use command languages (e.g. SQL), menus, or form fillin interfaces do not give users an indication of the distribution of data in their...

Creating Creativity: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation (2000)

Ben Shneiderman, Draft July, Brad Myers, Assoc August

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained by building...

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

"I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings." -- Thomas Jefferson, Reply to American...

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

"I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings." -- Thomas Jefferson, Reply to American...

Snap-Together Visualization: Coordinating Multiple Views to Explore Information (1999)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. However, it is usually difficult for users to find or create the...

Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained if designers...

Snap-Together Visualization: Coordinating Multiple Views to Explore Information (1999)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. However, it is usually difficult for users to find or create the...

Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained if designers...

Pixel Data Access for End-User Programming and Graphical Macros (1999)

Potter, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Pixel Data Access is an interprocess communication technique that enables users of graphical user interfaces to automate certain tasks. By accessing the contents of the display buffer, users can...

The Design of History Mechanisms and their Use in Collaborative Educational Simulations (1999)

Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Rubloff, Gary, Salter, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Reviewing past events has been useful in many domains. Videotapes and flight data recorders provide nvaluable technological help to sports coaches or aviation engineers. Similarly, providing learners...

Pixel Data Access for End-User Programming and Graphical Macros (1999)

Potter, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Pixel Data Access is an interprocess communication technique that enables users of graphical user interfaces to automate certain tasks. By accessing the contents of the display buffer, users can...

The Design of History Mechanisms and their Use in Collaborative Educational Simulations (1999)

Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne, Rubloff, Gary, Salter, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Reviewing past events has been useful in many domains. Videotapes and flight data recorders provide nvaluable technological help to sports coaches or aviation engineers. Similarly, providing learners...

Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualizations of WWW Log Data (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained by building...

Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchical Axes (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben, Feldman, David, Rose, Anne

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualizations of WWW Log Data (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained by building...

Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchical Axes (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben, Feldman, David, Rose, Anne

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualization of WWW Log Data (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity.This ambitious goal can be attained by building on...

Using Interactive Visualizations of WWW Log Data to Characterize Access Patterns and Inform Site Design (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest ininterpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

The goal of universal access to information and communication services is compelling. It has united hardworking Internet technology promoters, telecommunications business leaders and government...

Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained if designers...

Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchial Axes (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben, Feldman, David, Rose, Anne

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualization of WWW Log Data (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Creating Creativity for Everyone: User Interfaces for Supporting Innovation (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity.This ambitious goal can be attained by building on...

Using Interactive Visualizations of WWW Log Data to Characterize Access Patterns and Inform Site Design (1999)

Hochheiser, Harry, Shneiderman, Ben

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest ininterpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

The goal of universal access to information and communication services is compelling. It has united hardworking Internet technology promoters, telecommunications business leaders and government...

Supporting Creativity with Advanced Information-Abundant User Interfaces (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained if designers...

Visualizing Digital Library Search Results with Categorical and Hierarchial Axes (1999)

Shneiderman, Ben, Feldman, David, Rose, Anne

Digital library search results are usually shown as a textual list, with 10-20 items per page. Viewing several thousand search results at once on a two-dimensional display with continuous variables...

Snap-together visualization: coordinating multiple views to explore information (1999)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. However, it is usually difficult for users to find or create the...

Pixel Data Access for End-User Programming and Graphical Macros. CS-TR-4019 (1999)

Richard Potter, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Bederson

Pixel Data Access is an interprocess communication technique that enables users of graphical user interfaces to automate certain tasks. By accessing the contents of the display buffer, users can...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (1999)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman, College Park, Md Fzzj, ...

Usability inspection [14]isanimportant approachtoachieving usability.Itaskshuman inspectors to detect usability problems a user interface design that they corrected improve usability. usually...

Expandable indexes versus sequential menus for searching hierarchies on the world wide web (1999)

Panayiotis Zaphiris, Panayiotis Zaphiris, Ben Shneiderman, Kent L. Norman

Expandable Indexes vs. Sequential Menus 2 An experiment is reported that compared expandable indexes providing full menu context with sequential menus providing only partial context. Menu depth was...

Temporal Visualization for Legal Case Histories (1999)

A Harris, Robert B. Allen, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

This paper discusses visualization of legal information using a tool for temporal information called LifeLines. The direct and indirect histories of cases can become very complex. We explored ways...

Creating creativity for everyone: User interfaces for supporting innovation (1999)

Ben Shneiderman

A challenge for human-computer interaction researchers and user interface designers is to construct information technologies that support creativity. This ambitious goal can be attained by building...

Understanding Patterns of User Visits to Web Sites: Interactive Starfield Visualizations of WWW Log Data (1999)

Harry Hochheiser, Ben Shneiderman

HTTP server log files provide Web site operators with substantial detail regarding the visitors to their sites. Interest in interpreting this data has spawned an active market for software packages...

MEDLINEplus Interface Evaluation: Final Report (1999)

Keith Cogdill, Keith Cogdill, Ben Shneiderman

This report presents findings from a formative evaluation of MEDLINEplus. The purpose of MEDLINEplus is to provide access to sources of authoritative health information on the World Wide Web....

Universal Usability: Pushing Human-Computer Interaction Research to Empower Every Citizen (1999)

Ben Shneiderman

This paper presents a research agenda based on three challenges in attaining universal usability for web-based and other services: - Technology variety: Supporting a broad range of hardware,...

Snap-Together Visualization: Coordinating Multiple Views to Explore Information (1999)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

Information visualizations with multiple coordinated views enable users to rapidly explore complex data and discover relationships. However, it is usually difficult for users to find or create the...

Temporal, Geographical and Categorical Aggregations Viewed through Coordinated Displays: A Case Study with Highway Incident Data (1999)

Anna Fredrikson, Chris North, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Information visualization displays can hold a limited number of data points, typically a few thousand, before they get crowded. One way to solve this problem with larger data sets is to create...

Temporal Visualization for Legal Case Histories (1999)

Chanda Harris Robert, A Harris, Robert B. Allen, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

This paper discusses visualization of legal information using a tool for temporal information called LifeLines. The direct and indirect histories of cases can become very complex. We explored ways...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (1999)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ine ective. We developed perspective-based...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (1999)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman

Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ine ective. We developed perspective-based...

Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy (1999)

Zhijun Zhang, Victor Basili, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract Inspection is a fundamental means of achieving software usability. Past research showed that the current usability inspection techniques were rather ineffective. We developed...

Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies (1998)

Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben, Wattenberg, Martin

Treemaps, a space-filling method for visualizing large hierarchical data sets, are receiving increasing attention. Several algorithms have been previously proposed to create more useful displays by...

Using Rhythms of Relationships to Understand Email Archives (1998)

Perer, Adam, Shneiderman, Ben, Oard, Douglas W.

Due to email's ubiquitous nature, millions of users are intimate with the technology. However, most users are only familiar with managing their own email, which is an inherently different task than...

Beyond Threads: Identifying Discussions in Email Archives (1998)

Perer, Adam, Shneiderman, Ben

Email archives have the promise of serving as great resources for historians and social scientists. However, making sense of the information in these archives is a challenge. Email messages are often...

LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records (1998)

Plaisant, Catherine, Mushlin, Richard, Snyder, Aaron, Li, Jia, Heller, Dan, Shneiderman, Ben

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview...

LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records (1998)

Plaisant, Catherine, Mushlin, Richard, Snyder, Aaron, Li, Jia, Heller, Dan, Shneiderman, Ben

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview...

Data Object and Label Placement For Information Abundant Visualizations (1998)

Li, Jia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniques, this paper...

Data Object and Label Placement For Information Abundant Visualizations (1998)

Li, Jia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniques, this paper...

Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms (1998)

Shneiderman, Ben, Borkowski, Ellen Yu, Alavi, Maryam, Norman, Kent L.

Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who use our three Teaching/Learning Theaters at the University of Maryland, College Park. These fully-equipped electronic...

Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms (1998)

Shneiderman, Ben, Borkowski, Ellen Yu, Alavi, Maryam, Norman, Kent L.

Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who use our three Teaching/Learning Theaters at the University of Maryland, College Park. These fully-equipped electronic...

Facilitating Network Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference (1998)

Tanin, Egemen, Lotem, Amnon, Haddadin, Ihab, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Slaughter, Laura

Current network data exploration systems which use command languages (e.g. SQL) or form fill-in interfaces fail to give users an indication of the distribution of data items. This leads many users to...

Facilitating Network Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference (1998)

Tanin, Egemen, Lotem, Amnon, Haddadin, Ihab, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Slaughter, Laura

Current network data exploration systems which use command languages (e.g. SQL) or form fill-in interfaces fail to give users an indication of the distribution of data items. This leads many users to...

Data Object and Label Placement for Information Abundant Visualizations (1998)

Li, Jia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniques, this paper...

Data Object and Label Placement for Information Abundant Visualizations (1998)

Li, Jia, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniques, this paper...

LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records (1998)

Catherine Plaisant, Richard Mushlin, Aaron Snyder, Jia Li, Dan Heller, Ben Shneiderman, ...

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview...

Emergent patterns of teaching/learning in electronic classrooms (1998)

Ben Shneiderman, Ellen Yu Borkowski, Short Title

Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who use our three Teaching/Learning Theaters at the University of Maryland, College Park. These fullyequipped electronic...

Facilitating Network Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference (1998)

Egemen Tanin, Amnon Lotem, Ihab Haddadin, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Laura Slaughter

Current network data exploration systems which use command languages (e.g. SQL) or form fill-in interfaces fail to give users an indication of the distribution of data items. This leads many users to...

Sorting out searching: A user-interface framework for text searches (1998)

Ben Shneiderman, Donald Byrd, W. Bruce Croft

Abstract: Current user interfaces for textual database searching leave much to be desired: individually, they are often confusing, and as a group, they are seriously inconsistent. We propose a...

An information architecture to support the visualization of personal histories (1998)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract: This paper proposes an information architecture for personal history data and describes how the data model can be extended to a runtime model for an intuitive visualization using graphical...

Facilitating Network Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference (1998)

E. Tanin, A. Lotem, I. Haddadin, B. Shneiderman, C. Plaisant, L. Slaughter, ...

Current network data exploration systems which use command languages (e.g. SQL) or form fill-in interfaces fail to give users an indication of the distribution of data items. This leads many users to...

Facilitating Network Data Exploration with Query Previews: A Study of User Performance and Preference (1998)

Egemen Tanin, Amnon Lotem, Ihab Haddadin, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Laura Slaughter

Current network data exploration systems which use command languages (e.g. SQL) or form fillin interfaces fail to give users an indication of the distribution of data items. This leads many users to...

Data Object and Label Placement For Information Abundant Visualizations (1998)

Jia Li, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Placing numerous data objects and their corresponding labels in limited screen space is a challenging problem in information visualization systems. Extending map-oriented techniques, this paper...

LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records (1998)

Catherine Plaisant Phd, Catherine Plaisant, Richard Mushlin, Aaron Snyder, Jia Li, Dan Heller, ...

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories. We explore its use for clinical patient records. A Java user interface is described, which presents a one-screen overview...

Sorting out Searching (1998)

Ben Shneiderman, Donald Byrd, W. Bruce Croft

: Current user interfaces for textual database searching leave much to be desired: individually, they are often confusing, and as a group, they are seriously inconsistent. We propose a four-phase...

A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordinations (1997)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated...

The End of Zero-Hit Queries: Query Previews for NASA's Global Change Master Directory (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Tanin, Egemen, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Olsen, Lola, Major, Gene, ...

The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) of the University of Maryland and NASA have collaborated over the last three years to refine and apply user interface research concepts developed at...

Codex, Memex, Genex: The pursuit of transformational technologies (1997)

Shneiderman, Ben

Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated...

A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordinations (1997)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated...

The End of Zero-Hit Queries: Query Previews for NASA's Global Change Master Directory (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Tanin, Egemen, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Olsen, Lola, Major, Gene, ...

The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) of the University of Maryland and NASA have collaborated over the last three years to refine and apply user interface research concepts developed at...

Codex, Memex, Genex: The pursuit of transformational technologies (1997)

Shneiderman, Ben

Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated...

Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems (1997)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Bruns, Tom

There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network...

Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Networked Information Systems (1997)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Bruns, Tom

There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network...

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information Seeking (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Marchionini, Gary, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information Seeking (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Marchionini, Gary, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

Elastic Windows: A Hierarchical Multi-Window World-Wide Web Browser (1997)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

The World-Wide Web (WWW) is becoming an invaluable source for the information needs of many users. However, current browsers are still primitive, in that they do not support many of the navigation...

Elastic Windows: A Hierarchical Multi-Window World-Wide Web Browser (1997)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

The World-Wide Web (WWW) is becoming an invaluable source for the information needs of many users. However, current browsers are still primitive, in that they do not support many of the navigation...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1997)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work shows that...

User Interfaces for a Complex Robotic Task: A Comparison of Tiled vs. Overlapped Windows (1997)

Lane, J.Corde, Kuester, Steven P., Shneiderman, Ben

High complexity tasks, such as remote teleoperation of robotic vehicles, often require multiple windows. For these complex tasks, the windows necessary for task completion, may occupy more area than...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1997)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work shows that...

User Interfaces for a Complex Robotic Task: A Comparison of Tiled vs. Overlapped Windows (1997)

Lane, J.Corde, Kuester, Steven P., Shneiderman, Ben

High complexity tasks, such as remote teleoperation of robotic vehicles, often require multiple windows. For these complex tasks, the windows necessary for task completion, may occupy more area than...

Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Network Information Systems (1997)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Bruns, Tom

There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network...

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information-Seeking (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Marchionini, Gary, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

An Information Architecture to Support the Visualization of Personal Histories (1997)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper proposes an information architecture for personal history data and describes how the data model can be extended to a runtime model for an intuitive visualization using graphical timelines....

A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordination (1997)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

In current windowing environments, individual windows are treated independently, making it difficult for users to coordinate information across multiple windows. While coordinated multi- window...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1997)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work shows that...

Design and Evaluation of Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1997)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQI) are a recently developed database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that DQI are an...

Interface and Data Architecture for Query Preview in Network Information Systems (1997)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben, Bruns, Tom

There are numerous problems associated with formulating queries on networked information systems. These include data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network...

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information-Seeking (1997)

Greene, Stephan, Marchionini, Gary, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

To aid designers of digital library interfaces and web sites in creating comprehensible, predictable and controllable environments for their users, we define and discuss the benefits of previews and...

An Information Architecture to Support the Visualization of Personal Histories (1997)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper proposes an information architecture for personal history data and describes how the data model can be extended to a runtime model for an intuitive visualization using graphical timelines....

A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordination (1997)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben

In current windowing environments, individual windows are treated independently, making it difficult for users to coordinate information across multiple windows. While coordinated multi- window...

Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces (1997)

Ben Shneiderman

Abstract: Direct manipulation user interfaces have proven their worth over two decades, but they are still in their youth. Dramatic opportunities exist to develop direct manipulation programming to...

Designing information-abundant Web sites: issues and recommendations (1997)

Ben Shneiderman

‘‘Gradually I began to feel that we were growing something almost organic in a new kind of reality, in cyberspace, growing it out of information2a pulsing tree of data that I loved to climb...

A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordinations (1997)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman

In current windowing environments, individual windows are treated independently, making it difficult for users to coordinate information across multiple windows. While coordinated multi-window...

Browsing hierarchical data with multi-level dynamic queries and pruning (1997)

Harsha P. Kumar, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Users often must browse hierarchies with thousands of nodes in search of those that best match their information needs. The PDQ Tree-browser (Pruning with Dynamic Queries) visualization tool was...

Design and evaluation of incremental data structures and algorithms for dynamic query interfaces (1997)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that...

Design and evaluation of incremental data structures and algorithms for dynamic query interfaces (1997)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that...

Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data (1997)

Khoa Doan Catherine, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Tom Bruns

Formulating queries on networked information systems is laden with problems: data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network access. This paper proposes a new...

Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces (1997)

Ben Shneiderman Human, Ben Shneiderman

: Direct manipulation user interfaces have proven their worth over two decades, but they are still in their youth. Dramatic opportunities exist to develop direct manipulation programming to create...

Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data (1997)

Khoa Doan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Tom Bruns

Formulating queries on networked information systems is laden with problems: data diversity, data complexity, network growth, varied user base, and slow network access. This paper proposes a new...

Direct Manipulation for Comprehensible, Predictable and Controllable User Interfaces (1997)

Ben Shneiderman

: Direct manipulation user interfaces have proven their worth over two decades, but they are still in their youth. Dramatic opportunities exist to develop direct manipulation programming to create...

Visual Information Seeking in Digital Image Libraries: The Visible Human Explorer (1997)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Footnote: This chapter uses extracts from the following paper, and is expanded to report on recent work:

Elastic Windows: Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations (1996)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 1980s' technology. Due to advances in computers and display technology, and...

Elastic Windows: Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations (1996)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 1980s' technology. Due to advances in computers and display technology, and...

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (1996)

Shneiderman, Ben

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on- demand. But this is only a...

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (1996)

Shneiderman, Ben

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on- demand. But this is only a...

Visual & Textual Consistency Checking Tools for Graphical User Interfaces (1996)

Mahajan, Rohit, Shneiderman, Ben

Designing a user interface with a consistent visual design and textual properties with current generation GUI development tools is cumbersome. SHERLOCK, a family of consistency checking tools, has...

Design and Evaluation of Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that DQIs are...

Visual & Textual Consistency Checking Tools for Graphical User Interfaces (1996)

Mahajan, Rohit, Shneiderman, Ben

Designing a user interface with a consistent visual design and textual properties with current generation GUI development tools is cumbersome. SHERLOCK, a family of consistency checking tools, has...

Design and Evaluation of Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Tanin, Egemen, Beigel, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that DQIs are...

Designing Information-Abundant Websites (1996)

Shneiderman, Ben

The deluge of web pages has generated dystopian commentaries on the tragedy of the flood as well as utopian visions of harnessing the same flood for constructive purposes. Within this ocean of...

Designing Information-Abundant Websites (1996)

Shneiderman, Ben

The deluge of web pages has generated dystopian commentaries on the tragedy of the flood as well as utopian visions of harnessing the same flood for constructive purposes. Within this ocean of...

Social impact statements: Engaging public participation in information technology design (1996)

Ben Shneiderman, Anne Rose

“The real question before us lies here: do these instruments firther lije and enhance its values, or not? ”- Mumford (1934) p. 318 Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives....

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, U. Maryl, Ben Shneiderman, U. Maryland, U. Maryland

Abstract Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work...

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (1996)

Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. But this is only a starting...

Elastic Windows: Improved Spatial Layout and Rapid Multiple Window Operations (1996)

Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 80s ' applications and technology. Advances in computers, display...

User Controlled Overviews of an Image Library: A Case Study of the Visible Human (1996)

Chris North, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

This paper proposes a user interface for remote access of the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human digital image library. Users can visualize the library, browse contents, locate data of...

Lifelines: Visualizing Personal Histories (1996)

Catherine Plaisant, Brett Milash, Anne Rose, Seth Widoff, Ben Shneiderman

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical data. A one...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, U. Maryl, Ben Shneiderman, U. Maryland, U. Maryland

Abstract Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work...

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (1996)

For Information Visualizations, Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual InformationSeeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. But this is only a starting...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, U. Maryl, Ben Shneiderman, U. Maryland, U. Maryland

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) are a recently developed form of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work shows that...

Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces (1996)

Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, U. Maryl, Ben Shneiderman, U. Maryland, U. Maryland

Dynamic query interfaces (DQIs) form a recently developed method of database access that provides continuous realtime feedback to the user during the query formulation process. Previous work shows...

The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations (1996)

Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

A useful starting point for designing advanced graphical user interfaces is the Visual Information-Seeking Mantra: Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand. But this is only a starting...

Lifelines: Visualizing Personal Histories (1996)

Catherine Plaisant, Brett Milash, Anne Rose, Seth Widoff, Ben Shneiderman

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical data. A one...

Social Impact Statements: Engaging Public Participation in Information Technology Design (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Rose, Anne

"The real question before us lies here: do these instruments further life and enhance its values, or not? - Mumford (1934) p. 318 Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Banks,...

User controlled overviews of an image library: A case study of the Visible Human (1995)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

This paper proposes a user interface for remote access of the National Library of Medicines Visible Human digital image library. Users can visualize the library, browse contents, locate data of...

Social Impact Statements: Engaging Public Participation in Information Technology Design (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Rose, Anne

"The real question before us lies here: do these instruments further life and enhance its values, or not? - Mumford (1934) p. 318 Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Banks,...

User controlled overviews of an image library: A case study of the Visible Human (1995)

North, Chris, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

This paper proposes a user interface for remote access of the National Library of Medicines Visible Human digital image library. Users can visualize the library, browse contents, locate data of...

Elastic Windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations (1995)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 80s' applications and technology. Advances in computers, display technology,...

LifeLines: Visualizing personal histories (1995)

Plaisant, Catherine, Milash, Brett, Rose, Anne, Widoff, Seth, Shneiderman, Ben

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical data. A one...

Query previews in networked information systems (1995)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In a networked information system, there are three major obstacles facing users in a querying process: slow network performance, large data volume and data complexity. In order to overcome these...

Windows of Opportunity in Electronic Classrooms (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Alavi, Maryam, Norman, Kent L., Borkowski, Ellen Yu

In our seven year effort to build electronic classrooms we tried to balance the pursuit of new technologies with the exploration of new teaching/learning styles while providing the necessary...

Elastic Windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations (1995)

Kandogan, Eser, Shneiderman, Ben

Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 80s' applications and technology. Advances in computers, display technology,...

LifeLines: Visualizing personal histories (1995)

Plaisant, Catherine, Milash, Brett, Rose, Anne, Widoff, Seth, Shneiderman, Ben

LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical data. A one...

Query previews in networked information systems (1995)

Doan, Khoa, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In a networked information system, there are three major obstacles facing users in a querying process: slow network performance, large data volume and data complexity. In order to overcome these...

Windows of Opportunity in Electronic Classrooms (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Alavi, Maryam, Norman, Kent L., Borkowski, Ellen Yu

In our seven year effort to build electronic classrooms we tried to balance the pursuit of new technologies with the exploration of new teaching/learning styles while providing the necessary...

Buttons vs. menus: An exploratory study of pull-down menu selection as compared to button bars (1995)

Ellis, Jason, Tran, Chi, Ryoo, Jake, Shneiderman, Ben

Button bars are a relatively new interaction method intended to speed up application use as compared to pull-down menus. This exploratory study compares three command selection methods: pull-down...

Buttons vs. menus: An exploratory study of pull-down menu selection as compared to button bars (1995)

Ellis, Jason, Tran, Chi, Ryoo, Jake, Shneiderman, Ben

Button bars are a relatively new interaction method intended to speed up application use as compared to pull-down menus. This exploratory study compares three command selection methods: pull-down...

Evaluating spatial and textual style of displays (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Chimera, Richard, Jog, Ninad, Stimart, Ren, White, David

The next generation of Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) will offer rapid access to perceptually-rich, information abundant, and cognitively consistent interfaces. These new GUIs will be subjected to...

Organization overviews and role management: Inspiration for future desktop environments (1995)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In our exploration of future work environments for the World Bank we propose two concepts. Organization overviews provide a consistent support to present the results of a variety of manual or...

Evaluating spatial and textual style of displays (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Chimera, Richard, Jog, Ninad, Stimart, Ren, White, David

The next generation of Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) will offer rapid access to perceptually-rich, information abundant, and cognitively consistent interfaces. These new GUIs will be subjected to...

Organization overviews and role management: Inspiration for future desktop environments (1995)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

In our exploration of future work environments for the World Bank we propose two concepts. Organization overviews provide a consistent support to present the results of a variety of manual or...

A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools (1995)

Mahajan, Rohit, Shneiderman, Ben

Incorporating evaluation metrics with GUI development tools will help designers create consistent interfaces in the future. Complexity in design of interfaces makes efficient evaluation impossible by...

A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools (1995)

Mahajan, Rohit, Shneiderman, Ben

Incorporating evaluation metrics with GUI development tools will help designers create consistent interfaces in the future. Complexity in design of interfaces makes efficient evaluation impossible by...

Assessing users' subjective satisfaction with the Information System for Youth Services (ISYS) (1995)

Slaughter, Laura, Norman, Kent L., Shneiderman, Ben

In this investigation, the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS 5.5), a tool for assessing users' subjective satisfaction with specific aspects of the human/computer interface was...

Browsing Hierarchical Data with Multi-Level Dynamic Queries and Pruning (1995)

Kumar, Harsha, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Users often must browse hierarchies with thousands of nodes in search of those that best match their information needs. The PDQ Tree-browser (Pruning with Dynamic Queries) visualization tool was...

Assessing users' subjective satisfaction with the Information System for Youth Services (ISYS) (1995)

Slaughter, Laura, Norman, Kent L., Shneiderman, Ben

In this investigation, the Questionnaire for User Interaction Satisfaction (QUIS 5.5), a tool for assessing users' subjective satisfaction with specific aspects of the human/computer interface was...

Browsing Hierarchical Data with Multi-Level Dynamic Queries and Pruning (1995)

Kumar, Harsha, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Users often must browse hierarchies with thousands of nodes in search of those that best match their information needs. The PDQ Tree-browser (Pruning with Dynamic Queries) visualization tool was...

Using Ethnographic Methods in the Redesign of User Interfaces (1995)

Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Methods for observing software users in the workplace will become increasingly important as the number of people using computers grows and developers improve existing systems. Successful redesigns...

User Interface Reengineering: A Diagnostic Approach (1995)

Vanniamparampil, Ajit J., Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne

User interface technology has advanced rapidly in recent years. Incorporating new developments in existing systems could result in substantial improvements in usability, thereby improving performance...

Using Ethnographic Methods in the Redesign of User Interfaces (1995)

Rose, Anne, Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Methods for observing software users in the workplace will become increasingly important as the number of people using computers grows and developers improve existing systems. Successful redesigns...

User Interface Reengineering: A Diagnostic Approach (1995)

Vanniamparampil, Ajit J., Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Rose, Anne

User interface technology has advanced rapidly in recent years. Incorporating new developments in existing systems could result in substantial improvements in usability, thereby improving performance...

Evaluating Spatial and Textual Style of Displays (1995)

Shneiderman, Ben, Chimera, Richard, Jog, Ninog, Stimart, Ren, White, David

The next generation of Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs) will offer rapid access to perceptually-rich, information abundant, and cognitively consistent interfaces. These new GUIs will be subjected to...

Image browsers: taxonomy, guidelines, and informal specifications (1995)

Catherine Plaisant, David Carr, Ben Shneiderman

The one-dimensional scroll bar has become a well-established fixture in all contemporary graphic

A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools (1995)

Rohit Mahajan, Ben Shneiderman

Incorporating evaluation metrics with GUI development tools will help designers create consistent interfaces in the future. Complexity in design of interfaces makes efficient evaluation impossible by...

An Applied Ethnographic Method for Redesigning User Interfaces (1995)

Anne Rose, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Methods for observing software users in the workplace will become increasingly important as the number of people using computers grows and developers improve existing systems. Successful redesigns...

Using treemaps to visualize the analytic hierarchy process (1995)

Toshiyuki Asahi, David Turo, Ben Shneiderman

Treemaps, a visualization method for large hierarchical data spaces, are used to augment the capabilities of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision-making. Two direct manipulation tools,...

Windows of Opportunity in Electronic Classrooms (1995)

Ben Shneiderman, Maryam Alavi, Kent Norman, Ellen Yu Borkowskif

In our seven year effort to build electronic classrooms we tried to balance the pursuit of new technologies with the exploration of new teaching/learning styles while providing the necessary...

Organization overviews and role management: Inspiration for future desktop environments (1995)

Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

related windows are opened or closed together. Such techniques will relieve the user from much of the tedious windowhouse-keeping that plagues current window applications. REFERENCES

Survival of the Fittest: The Evolution of Multimedia User Interfaces (1995)

Jenny Preece, Ben Shneiderman

orces determine survival, as companies and products come and go. Darwin would probably have been astounded by the rapid expansion of multimedia within only a few generations of computers. Predicting...

Visual Decision-making: Using Treemaps for the Analytic Hierarchy Process (1995)

Toshiyuki Asahi, David Turo, Ben Shneiderman

The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making method based upon division of problem spaces into hierarchies, is visualized through the use of treemaps, which pack large amounts of...

Navigating Terminology Hierarchies to Access a Digital Library of Medical Images (1995)

Flip Korn, Ben Shneiderman

Browsing is an interactive and exploratory process for finding information in a digital library that has advantages over search term queries in many situations. Some browsers display a concept space...

Visual Information Management for Network Configuration (1994)

Kumar, Harsha, Plaisant, Catherine, Teittinen, Marko, Shneiderman, Ben

Current network management systems rely heavily on forms in their user interfaces. the interfaces reflect the intricacies of the network hardware components but provide little support for guiding...

Using Treemaps to visualize the Analytic Hierarchy Process (1994)

Asahi, Toshiyuki, Turo, David, Shneiderman, Ben

Treemaps, a visualization method for large hierarchical data spaces, are used to augment the capabilities of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision-making. Two direct manipulation tools,...

Visual Information Management for Network Configuration (1994)

Kumar, Harsha, Plaisant, Catherine, Teittinen, Marko, Shneiderman, Ben

Current network management systems rely heavily on forms in their user interfaces. the interfaces reflect the intricacies of the network hardware components but provide little support for guiding...

Using Treemaps to visualize the Analytic Hierarchy Process (1994)

Asahi, Toshiyuki, Turo, David, Shneiderman, Ben

Treemaps, a visualization method for large hierarchical data spaces, are used to augment the capabilities of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for decision-making. Two direct manipulation tools,...

The Future of Graphic User Interfaces: Personal Role Managers (1994)

Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Personal computer users typically manage hundreds of directories and thousands of files with hierarchically structured file managers, plus archaic cluttered-desktop window managers, and iconic...

Interactive Smooth Zoomming in a Starfield Information Visualization (1994)

Jog, Ninad, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper discusses the design and implementation of interactive smooth zooming of a starfield display. A starfield display is a two dimensional scatterplot of a multidimensional database where...

The Future of Graphic User Interfaces: Personal Role Managers (1994)

Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine

Personal computer users typically manage hundreds of directories and thousands of files with hierarchically structured file managers, plus archaic cluttered-desktop window managers, and iconic...

Interactive Smooth Zoomming in a Starfield Information Visualization (1994)

Jog, Ninad, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper discusses the design and implementation of interactive smooth zooming of a starfield display. A starfield display is a two dimensional scatterplot of a multidimensional database where...

Image Browsers: Taxonomy, Guidelines, and Informal Specifications (1994)

Plaisant, Catherine, Carr, David, Shneiderman, Ben

Image browsing is necessary in numerous applications. Designers have merely used two one-dimensional scroll bars or they have made ad hoc designs for a two-dimensional scroll bar. However, the...

Image Browsers: Taxonomy, Guidelines, and Informal Specifications (1994)

Plaisant, Catherine, Carr, David, Shneiderman, Ben

Image browsing is necessary in numerous applications. Designers have merely used two one-dimensional scroll bars or they have made ad hoc designs for a two-dimensional scroll bar. However, the...

Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking (1994)

Shneiderman, Ben

The capacity to incrementally adjust a query (with sliders, buttons, selections from a set of discrete attribute values, etc.) coupled with a visual display of results that are rapidly updated,...

Dynamic Queries for Visual Information Seeking (1994)

Shneiderman, Ben

The capacity to incrementally adjust a query (with sliders, buttons, selections from a set of discrete attribute values, etc.) coupled with a visual display of results that are rapidly updated,...

Image Browsers: Taxonomy, Guidelines, and Informal Specifications (1994)

Plaisant, Catherine, Carr, David A., Shneiderman, Ben

Image browsing is necessary in numerous applications. Designers have merely used two one-dimensional scroll bars or they have made ad hoc designs for a two-dimensional scroll bar. However, the...

Next Generation Network Management Technology (1994)

Atallah, George C., Ball, Michael O., Baras, John S., Goli, Shravan K., Karne, Ramesh K., Kelley, Stephen, ...

Today's telecommunications networks are becoming increasingly large, complex, mission critical and heterogeneous in several dimensions. For example, the underlying physical transmission facilities of...

Data Structures for Dynamic Queries: An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation (1994)

Jain, Vinit, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic Queries is a querying technique for doing range search on multi-key data sets. It is a direct manipulation mechanism where the query is formulated using graphical widgets and the result s are...

Image Browsers: Taxonomy, Guidelines, and Informal Specifications (1994)

Plaisant, Catherine, Carr, David A., Shneiderman, Ben

Image browsing is necessary in numerous applications. Designers have merely used two one-dimensional scroll bars or they have made ad hoc designs for a two-dimensional scroll bar. However, the...

Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays (1994)

Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman

This paper offers new principles for visual information seeking (VIS). A key concept is to support browsing, which is distinguished from familiar query composition and information retrieval because...

Dynamic queries for visual information seeking (1994)

Ben Shneiderman

human-computer interaction, visual languages, visual information seeking Dynamic queries are a novel approach to information seeking that may enable users to cope with information overload. They...

The Future of Graphic User Interfaces: Personal Role Managers (1994)

Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant

Personal computer users typically manage hundreds of directories and thousands of files with hierarchically structured file managers, plus archaic cluttered-desktop window managers, and iconic...

Data structures for dynamic queries: An analytical and experimental evaluation (1994)

Vinit Jain, Ben Shneiderman

quantification, storage overhead quantification. Dynamic Queries is a querying technique for doing range search on multi-key data sets. It is a direct manipulation mechanism where the query is...

Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays (1994)

Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman

This paper offers new principles for visual information seeking (VIS). A key concept is to support browsing, which is distinguished from familiar query composition and information retrieval because...

Split Menus: Effectively Using Selection Frequency to Organize Menus (1994)

Andrew Sears, Ben Shneiderman

split menus Abstract: When some items in a menu are selected more frequently than others, as is often the case, designers or individual users may be able to speed performance and improve preference...

An exploratory evaluation of three interfaces for browsing large hierarchical tables of contents (1994)

Richard Chimera, Ben Shneiderman

Three different interfaces were used to browse a large (1296 items) table of contents. A

The Alphaslider: A Compact and Rapid Selector (1994)

Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman

Research has suggested that rapid, serial, visual presentation of text (RSVP) may be an effective way to scan and search through lists of text strings in search of words, names, etc. The Alphaslider...

The Alphaslider: A Compact and Rapid Selector (1994)

Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman

Research has suggested that rapid, serial, visual presentation of text (RSVP) may be an effective way to scan and search through lists of text strings in search of words, names, etc. The Alphaslider...

Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays (1994)

Christopher Ahlberg, Ben Shneiderman

This paper offers new principles for visual information seeking (VIS). A key concept is to support browsing, which is distinguished from familiar query composition and information retrieval because...

Split Menus: Effectively Using Selection Frequency to Organize Menus (1994)

Andrew Sears, Ben Shneiderman

When some items in a menu are selected more frequently than others, as is often the case, designers or individual users may be able to speed performance and improve preference ratings by placing...

Dynamic queries for visual information seeking (1994)

Ben Shneiderman

Dynamic queries let users “fly through” databases by adjusting widgets and viewing the animated results. In studies, users reacted to this approach with an enthusiasm more commonly associated...

Dynamic queries for visual information seeking (1994)

Ben Shneiderman

human-computer interaction, visual languages, visual information seeking Dynamic queries are a novel approach to information seeking that may enable users to cope with information overload. They...

An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents (1993)

Chimera, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Three different interfaces were used to browse a large (1296 items) table of contents. A fully expanded stable interface, expand/contract interface, and multi-pane interface were studied in a...

Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays (1993)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper offers new principles for visual information seeking (VIS). A key concept is to support browsing, which is distinguished from familiar query composition and information retrieval because...

The Alphaslider: A Compact and Rapid Selector (1993)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

Research has suggested that rapid, serial, visual presentation of text (RSVP) may be an effective way to scan and search through lists of text strings in search of words, names, etc. The Alphaslider...

Data Structures for Dynamic Queries: An Analytical and Experimantal Evaluation. (1993)

Jain, Vinit, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic Queries is a querying technique for doing range search on multi-key data sets. It is a direct manipulation mechanism where the query is formulated using graphical widgets and the results are...

An Exploratory Evaluation of Three Interfaces for Browsing Large Hierarchical Tables of Contents (1993)

Chimera, Richard, Shneiderman, Ben

Three different interfaces were used to browse a large (1296 items) table of contents. A fully expanded stable interface, expand/contract interface, and multi-pane interface were studied in a...

Visual Information Seeking: Tight Coupling of Dynamic Query Filters with Starfield Displays (1993)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper offers new principles for visual information seeking (VIS). A key concept is to support browsing, which is distinguished from familiar query composition and information retrieval because...

The Alphaslider: A Compact and Rapid Selector (1993)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

Research has suggested that rapid, serial, visual presentation of text (RSVP) may be an effective way to scan and search through lists of text strings in search of words, names, etc. The Alphaslider...

Data Structures for Dynamic Queries: An Analytical and Experimantal Evaluation. (1993)

Jain, Vinit, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic Queries is a querying technique for doing range search on multi-key data sets. It is a direct manipulation mechanism where the query is formulated using graphical widgets and the results are...

Split menus: Effectively using selection frequency to organize menus (1993)

Sears, Andrew, Shneiderman, Ben

When some items in a menu are selected more frequently than others, as is often the case, designers or individual users may be able to speed performance and improve satisfaction by placing several...

Split menus: Effectively using selection frequency to organize menus (1993)

Sears, Andrew, Shneiderman, Ben

When some items in a menu are selected more frequently than others, as is often the case, designers or individual users may be able to speed performance and improve satisfaction by placing several...

AlphaSlider: Searching Textual Lists with Sliders (1993)

Osada, Masakazu, Liao, Holmes, Shneiderman, Ben

AlphaSlider is a query interface that uses a direct manipulation slider to select words, phrases, or names from an existing list. This paper introduces a prototype of AlphaSlider, describes the...

AlphaSlider: Searching Textual Lists with Sliders (1993)

Osada, Masakazu, Liao, Holmes, Shneiderman, Ben

AlphaSlider is a query interface that uses a direct manipulation slider to select words, phrases, or names from an existing list. This paper introduces a prototype of AlphaSlider, describes the...

Data Structures for Dynamic Queries: An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation (1993)

Jian, Vinit, Shneiderman, Ben

Dynamic Queries is a querying technique for doing range search on multi-keydata sets. It is a direct manipulation mechanism where the query is formulatedusing graphical widgets and the results are...

A graphical query interface based on aggregation/generalization hierarchies (1993)

William J. Weiland, Ben Shneiderman

In order for automated information systems to be used effectively, they must be made easily accessible to a wide range of users and with short training periods. This work proposes a method of...

Alphaslider: Searching textual lists with sliders (1993)

Masakazu Osada, Holmes Liao, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract: AlphaSlider is a query interface that uses a direct manipulation slider to select words, phrases, or names from an existing list. This paper introduces a prototype of AlphaSlider, describes...

Investigating touchscreen typing: the effect of keyboard size on typing speed (1993)

Andrew Sears, Doreen Revis, Janet Swatski, Rob Crittenden, Ben Shneiderman

Abstract: Two studies investigated the effect keyboard size has on typing speed and error rates for touchscreen keyboards using the lift-off strategy. A cursor appeared when users touched the screen...

A Graphical Filter/Flow Representation of Boolean Queries: A Prototype Implementation and Evaluation (1993)

Degi Young, Ben Shneiderman

One of the powerful applications of Boolean expression is to allow users to extract relevant information from a database. Unfortunately, previous research has shown that users have difficulty...

Building Partnerships and Infrastructure (1993)

Ben Shneiderman, Clayton Lewis

: February 9, 1993 ABSTRACT As policymakers and technology planners respond to the growing activity in human-computer interaction, a broad perspective may be helpful. This article offers a top-down...

Declaration in Apple vs. Microsoft/Hewlett-Packard (1993)

Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

items from Apple's list of similarities. 3a. The ""desktop." The desktop in Macintosh provides a home base from which users can enter, exit, and manage their computer environment...

User Interface Consistency: An Evaluation of Original and Revised Interfaces for a Videodisk Library (1993)

Richard Chimera, Ben Shneiderman

Original and revised versions of the National Library of Medicine MicroAnatomy Visual Library system were evaluated with an empirical test of nineteen subjects. The versions of the program's...

Providing Advisory Notices for UNIX Command Users: Design, Implementation, and Empirical Evaluations (1992)

Kuah, Boon-Teck, Shneiderman, Ben

UNIX Notices (UN) was developed to study the problems in providing advice to users of complex systems. The issues studied were: what, when, and how to present the advice. The first experiment with 24...

Providing Advisory Notices for UNIX Command Users: Design, Implementation, and Empirical Evaluations (1992)

Kuah, Boon-Teck, Shneiderman, Ben

UNIX Notices (UN) was developed to study the problems in providing advice to users of complex systems. The issues studied were: what, when, and how to present the advice. The first experiment with 24...

Speech Versus Mouse Commands for Word Processing: an Empirical Evaluation (1992)

Karl, Lewis R., Pettey, Michael, Shneiderman, Ben

Despite advances in speech technology, human factors research since the late 1970s has provided only weak evidence that automatic speech recognition devices are superior to conventional input devices...

Speech Versus Mouse Commands for Word Processing: an Empirical Evaluation (1992)

Karl, Lewis R., Pettey, Michael, Shneiderman, Ben

Despite advances in speech technology, human factors research since the late 1970s has provided only weak evidence that automatic speech recognition devices are superior to conventional input devices...

A Graphical Filter/Flow Representation of Boolean Queries: A Prototype Implementation and Evaluation (1992)

Young, Degi, Shneiderman, Ben

One of the powerful applications of Boolean expression is to allow users to extract relevant information from a database. Unfortunately, previous research has shown that users have difficulty...

A Graphical Filter/Flow Representation of Boolean Queries: A Prototype Implementation and Evaluation (1992)

Young, Degi, Shneiderman, Ben

One of the powerful applications of Boolean expression is to allow users to extract relevant information from a database. Unfortunately, previous research has shown that users have difficulty...

Browsing Unix Directories With Dynamic Queries: An Evaluation of Three Information Display Techniques (1992)

Liao, Holmes, Osada, Masakazu, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative concept for dynamic queries which involves the direct manipulation of small databases. Our domain was directories in a Unix file system. Dynamic...

Browsing Unix Directories With Dynamic Queries: An Evaluation of Three Information Display Techniques (1992)

Liao, Holmes, Osada, Masakazu, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative concept for dynamic queries which involves the direct manipulation of small databases. Our domain was directories in a Unix file system. Dynamic...

The Dynamic HomeFinder: Evaluating Dynamic Queries in a Real-Estate Information Exploration System (1992)

Williamson, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented, and evaluated a new concept for visualizing and searching databases utilizing direct manipulation called dynamic queries. Dynamic queries allow users to formulate queries by...

The Dynamic HomeFinder: Evaluating Dynamic Queries in a Real-Estate Information Exploration System (1992)

Williamson, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented, and evaluated a new concept for visualizing and searching databases utilizing direct manipulation called dynamic queries. Dynamic queries allow users to formulate queries by...

Speech-Activated Versus Mouse-Activated Commands for Word Processing Applications: An Empirical Evaluation (1992)

Karl, Lewis, Pettey, Micheal, Shneiderman, Ben

Despite advances in speech technology, human factors research since the late 1970's has provided only weak evidence that automatic speech recognition devices are superior to conventional input...

The dynamic HomeFinder: evaluating dynamic queries in a real-estate information exploration system (1992)

Christopher Williamson, Ben Shneiderman

We designed, implemented, and evaluated a new concept for visualizing and searching databases utilizing direct manipulation called dynarruc queries. Dynamic queries allow users to formulate queries...

Structural analysis of hypertexts: Identifying hierarchies and useful metrics (1992)

Rodrigo A. Botafogo, Ehud Rivlin, Ben Shneiderman

Hypertext users often suffer from the “lost in hyperspace ” problem: disorientation from too many Jumps while traversing a complex network. One solution to this problem is Improved authoring to...

Dynamic queries for information exploration: An implementation and evaluation (1992)

Christopher Ahlberg, Christopher Williamson, Ben Shneiderman

We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynamic queries, that allows users to formulate queries with graphical widgets, such as sliders. By...

Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach (1992)

Ben Shneiderman

The traditional approach to representing tree structures is as a rooted, directed graph with the root node at the top of the page and children nodes below the parent node with lines connecting them...

Engagement and Construction: Education Strategies for the Post-TV Era (1992)

Ben Shneiderman

this paper were derived from [Shn92a]. Introduction We all remember the empty faces of students seated in rows, intermittently taking notes, and trying to retain disjointed facts. This old lecture...

Dynamic Queries for Information Exploration: An Implementation and Evaluation (1991)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Williamson, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynamic queries, that allows users to formulate queries with graphical widgets, such as sliders. By...

Dynamic Queries for Information Exploration: An Implementation and Evaluation (1991)

Ahlberg, Christopher, Williamson, Christopher, Shneiderman, Ben

We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynamic queries, that allows users to formulate queries with graphical widgets, such as sliders. By...

A Graphical Query Interface Based on Aggregation/Generalization Hierarchies (1991)

Weiland, William J., Shneiderman, Ben

In order for automated information systems to be used effectively, they must be made easily accessible to a wide range of users and with short training periods. This work proposes a method of...

Visual User Interfaces for Information Exploration (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben

The next generation of database management, directory browsing, information retrieval, hypermedia, scientific data management, and library systems can enable convenient exploration of growing...

A Graphical Query Interface Based on Aggregation/Generalization Hierarchies (1991)

Weiland, William J., Shneiderman, Ben

In order for automated information systems to be used effectively, they must be made easily accessible to a wide range of users and with short training periods. This work proposes a method of...

Visual User Interfaces for Information Exploration (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben

The next generation of database management, directory browsing, information retrieval, hypermedia, scientific data management, and library systems can enable convenient exploration of growing...

Designing to facilitate browsing: A look back at the Hyperties workstation browser (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Botafogo, Rodrigo, Hopkins, Don, Weiland, William

Since browsing hypertext can present a formidable cognitive challenge, user interface design plays a major role in determining acceptability. In the Unix workstation version of Hyperties, a...

Designing to facilitate browsing: A look back at the Hyperties workstation browser (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben, Plaisant, Catherine, Botafogo, Rodrigo, Hopkins, Don, Weiland, William

Since browsing hypertext can present a formidable cognitive challenge, user interface design plays a major role in determining acceptability. In the Unix workstation version of Hyperties, a...

Identifying Aggregates in Hypertext Structures (1991)

Botafogo, Rodrigo A., Shneiderman, Ben

Hypertext systems are being used in many applications because of their flexible structure and the great browsing freedom they give to diverse communities of users. However, this same freedom and...

Remote direct manipulation:A case study of a telemedicine workstation (1991)

Keil-Slawik, R., Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes our experience with the design of a remote pathologists workstation. We illustrate how our effort to apply direct manipulation principles led us to explore remote direct...

Tree-Maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures (1991)

Johnson, Brian, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel method for the visualization of hierarchically structured information. The Tree-Map visualization technique makes 100% use of theavailable display space, mapping the full...

Investigating Touchscreen Typing: the Effect of Keyboard Size on Typing Speed (1991)

Sears, Andrew, Revis, Doreen, Swatski, Janet, Crittenden, Rob, Shneiderman, Ben

Two studies investigated the effect keyboard size has on typing speed and error rates for touchscreen keyboards using the lift-off strategy. A cursor appeared when users touched the screen and a key...

Identifying Aggregates in Hypertext Structures (1991)

Botafogo, Rodrigo A., Shneiderman, Ben

Hypertext systems are being used in many applications because of their flexible structure and the great browsing freedom they give to diverse communities of users. However, this same freedom and...

Remote direct manipulation:A case study of a telemedicine workstation (1991)

Keil-Slawik, R., Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes our experience with the design of a remote pathologists workstation. We illustrate how our effort to apply direct manipulation principles led us to explore remote direct...

Tree-Maps: A Space Filling Approach to the Visualization of Hierarchical Information Structures (1991)

Johnson, Brian, Shneiderman, Ben

This paper describes a novel method for the visualization of hierarchically structured information. The Tree-Map visualization technique makes 100% use of theavailable display space, mapping the full...

Investigating Touchscreen Typing: the Effect of Keyboard Size on Typing Speed (1991)

Sears, Andrew, Revis, Doreen, Swatski, Janet, Crittenden, Rob, Shneiderman, Ben

Two studies investigated the effect keyboard size has on typing speed and error rates for touchscreen keyboards using the lift-off strategy. A cursor appeared when users touched the screen and a key...

Tree Visualization with Tree-maps: A 2-d space-filling approach (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben

This paper presents a novel approach to representing trees that have weights or sizes on the leaf nodes. The 2-d visualization is space filling and the recursive algorithm for generation runs...

Tree Visualization with Tree-maps: A 2-d space-filling approach (1991)

Shneiderman, Ben

This paper presents a novel approach to representing trees that have weights or sizes on the leaf nodes. The 2-d visualization is space filling and the recursive algorithm for generation runs...

Scheduling home control devices: Design issues and usability evaluation of four touchscreen interfaces (1991)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This article describes four different user interfaces supporting scheduling two state (ON/OFF) devices over time periods ranging from minutes to days. The touchscreen-based user interfaces including...

Scheduling home control devices: Design issues and usability evaluation of four touchscreen interfaces (1991)

Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

This article describes four different user interfaces supporting scheduling two state (ON/OFF) devices over time periods ranging from minutes to days. The touchscreen-based user interfaces including...

Identifying aggregates in hypertext structures (1991)

Rodrigo A. Botafogo, Ben Shneiderman

Hypertext systems are being used in many applications because of their flexible structure and the great browsing freedom they give to diverse communities of users. However, this same freedom and...

High Precision Touchscreens: Design Strategies and Comparisons with a Mouse (1991)

Andrew Sears, Ben Shneiderman

Three studies were conducted comparing speed of performance, error rates, and user preference ratings for three selection devices. The devices tested were a touchscreen, a touchscreen with...

Education by Engagement and Construction: A Strategic Education Initiative for a Multimedia Renewal of American Education (1991)

Ben Shneiderman

: We can renew American education by offering students the opportunity to develop skills, experiences, and values they need to become successful individuals, workers, family members, and societal...

Touchscreens Now Offer Compelling Uses (1991)

Ben Shneiderman

other pointing devices. Touchscreens are durable in public access and in high volume usage. These advantages mean that touchscreens are highly effective in public access information systems, cash...

Future directions for humancomputer interaction (1990)

Ben Shneiderman

This paper offers a set of goals for user interface development and then scenarios of future developments. The applications include home control, hypermedia, office automation, digital photography,...

Incorporating string search in a hypertext system: user interface and signature file design issues (1990)

Christos Faloutsos, Raymond Lee, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Hypertext systems provide an appealing mechanism for informally browsing databases by traversing selectable links. However, in many fact finding situations string search is an effective complement to...

Examining usability for a training-oriented hypertext: Can hyper-activity be good? (1990)

Tricia Jones, Ben SHNEIDERMAN

This paper describes the development of a training-oriented hypertext. The goal was to teach individuals how to use the Hyperties Author Tool for creating their own hypertexts. An innovative aspect...

Human Values and the Future of Technology: A Declaration of Empowerment (1990)

Ben Shneiderman

"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature." John Naisbitt (1982). We can make a difference in shaping the future by...

Future directions for human-computer interaction (1989)

Shneiderman, Ben

This paper offers a set of goals for user interface development and then scenarios of future developments. The applications include home control, hypermedia, office automation, digital photography,...

Future directions for human-computer interaction (1989)

Shneiderman, Ben

This paper offers a set of goals for user interface development and then scenarios of future developments. The applications include home control, hypermedia, office automation, digital photography,...

Incorporating String Search in a Hypertext System:User Interface and Signature File Design Issues (1989)

Faloutsos, Christos, Lee, Raymond, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Hypertext systems provide an appealing mechanism for informally browsing databases by traversing selectable links. However, in many fact finding situations string search is an effective complement to...

High Precision Touchscreens: Design Strategies and Comparisons with a Mouse (1989)

Sears, Andrew, Shneiderman, Ben

Three studies were conducted comparing speed of performance, error rates, and user preference ratings for three selection devices. The devices tested were a touchscreen, a touchscreen with...

Incorporating String Search in a Hypertext System:User Interface and Signature File Design Issues (1989)

Faloutsos, Christos, Lee, Raymond, Plaisant, Catherine, Shneiderman, Ben

Hypertext systems provide an appealing mechanism for informally browsing databases by traversing selectable links. However, in many fact finding situations string search is an effective complement to...

High Precision Touchscreens: Design Strategies and Comparisons with a Mouse (1989)

Sears, Andrew, Shneiderman, Ben

Three studies were conducted comparing speed of performance, error rates, and user preference ratings for three selection devices. The devices tested were a touchscreen, a touchscreen with...

Reflections on authoring, editing, and managing hypertext (1989)

Ben Shneiderman, Ben Shneiderman

This chapter offers recommendations for potential authors of hypertext documents based on the experience of designing a hypertext system and of creating a series of substantial hypertext databases on...