Readability of Scanned Books in Digital Libraries (2009)
Er J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Anne Rose, Benjamin B. Bederson
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user’s configuration that compound to yield text that is degraded and illegibly small....
Children in Technological Environments: Interaction, Development, and Design, Editors: (2009)
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Anne Rose, Ann Weeks, N. G. Freier
The Internet has led to an explosion of users throughout the world. Low-cost computing options are now emerging for developing countries that are changing the world’s educational landscape. Given...
Michel Beaudouin-lafon, Benjamin B. Bederson, Stéphane Conversey, Björn Eiderbäck, Hilary Hutchinson, Design Bosse Westerlund
Cover illustration is from the second Swedish
Paul S. Herrnson, Richard G. Niemi, Michael J. Hanmer, Peter L. Francia, Benjamin B. Bederson, Fred Conrad, ...
Electronic voting systems offer the promise of faster and more accurate voting, but the current reality is that few of the systems have been independently tested for voter usability issues. This...
Enhancing Readability of Scanned Picture Books (2008)
Chang Hu, Er J. Quinn, Benjamin B. Bederson
We describe a system that enhances the readability of scanned picture books. Motivated by our website of children’s books in the International Children's Digital Library, the system separates...
A Project to Assess Voting Technology and Ballot Design (2008)
Paul S. Herrnson, Frederick G. Conrad, Richard G. Niemi, Michael Traugott, Benjamin B. Bederson
The interdisciplinary project uses a variety of research designs, data collection methodologies, and analysis techniques and two ballot designs to assess five commercially available electronic voting...
Presented by Ann Carlson Weeks, on behalf of the ICDL Research Team: (2008)
Ann Carlson Weeks, Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Ann Carlson Weeks, Allison Farber, ...
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a five-year research project to develop innovative software and to create a collection of digitized books from all over the
Corresponding author (current address to be published as footnote): (2008)
Lance Good, Benjamin B. Bederson, Lance Good
Financial support: This work has been funded primarily by DARPA’s Command Post of the Future project. In this paper, we propose Zoomable User Interfaces as an alternative presentation medium to...
Lance Everett Good, Doctor Of Philosophy, Dissertation Professor, Benjamin B. Bederson
Millions of slide presentations are being authored and delivered with computer software every day. Yet much of the computer’s power for these tasks remains untapped. Existing interaction techniques...
User Interfaces General Terms (2008)
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Ann Weeks, Allison Farber, Jesse Grosjean, Mona Leigh Guha, ...
In this paper we describe the first version of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL). As a fiveyear research project, its mission is to enable children to access and read an...
Position Statement by Tom Erickson: Virtual Reality as a Medium for Data (2008)
Thomas Erickson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Peter Rothman, Raymond Muzzy
A visualization goal is to simplify the analysis of large-quantity, numerical data by rendering the data as an image that can be intuitively manipulated. The question this controversial panel...
Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces, Proceedings (2008)
Ronald M. Baecker, Human Factors, Typography For, Benjamin B. Bederson, Larry Stead, James D. Hollan, ...
ECOLENS: INTEGRATION AND INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION OF ECOLOGICAL DATASETS (2008)
Cynthia Sims Parr, Bongshin Lee, Benjamin B. Bederson
Complex multi-dimensional datasets are now pervasive in science and elsewhere in society. Better interactive tools are needed for visual data exploration so that patterns in such data may be easily...
ABSTRACT Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (2008)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Jesse Grosjean, Jon Meyer
In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions....
TaxonTree: Visualizing Biodiversity Information (2008)
Cynthia Sims Parr, Bongshin Lee, Dana Campbell, Benjamin B. Bederson
Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underlying data schemas....
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Gustav Taxén, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, ...
Collaborative storytelling occurs frequently when children play, but few efforts have been made to support it with computers. This demonstration presents KidPad, a collaborative storytelling tool...
Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces, Proceedings (2008)
Ronald M. Baecker, Human Factors, Typography For, Benjamin B. Bederson, Larry Stead, James D. Hollan, ...
One-Handed Touchscreen Input for Legacy Applications (2008)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
Supporting one-handed thumb operation of touchscreenbased mobile devices presents a challenging tradeoff between visual expressivity and ease of interaction. ThumbSpace and Shift—two new...
Benefits of Animated Scrolling (2008)
Christian Klein, Benjamin B. Bederson
We examined the benefits of animated scrolling using four speeds and three different document types in terms of task speed, accuracy and user preference. We considered reading tasks involving...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Doctor Of Philosophy, Dissertation Professor, Benjamin B. Bederson, Juan Pablo Hourcade
Computers are failing children. They are taking time away from meaningful interactions with people, and are often providing children with inappropriate experiences. In particular, they are failing to...
Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Interface (2007)
We have implemented an infinite resolution multimedia sketchpad as a base for exploring a stream-of-consciousness model of computation where information creating, sharing and retrieval becomes so...
An Agnostic Approach to Scripting Languages (2007)
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Jason Stewart
We describe a generic approach to connect any number of interpreted scripting languages to a library. We implemented this technique with Pad++ so that complete access to Pad++ is now available...
Single Display Groupware (2007)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Jason Stewart, Allison Druin
* We discuss a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model,...
User Interfaces General Terms (2007)
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Ann Weeks, Allison Farber, Jesse Grosjean, Mona Leigh Guha, ...
In this paper we describe the first version of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL). As a fiveyear research project, its mission is to enable children to access and read an...
ABSTRACT Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (2007)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Jesse Grosjean, Jon Meyer
In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions....
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Benjamin B. Bederson, ...
Collaborative storytelling occurs frequently when children play, but few efforts have been made to support it with computers. This demonstration presents KidPad, a collaborative storytelling tool...
Slidebar: analysis of a linear input device (2007)
Leslie E. Chipman, Benjamin B. Bederson, Jennifer A. Golbeck
The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position control of one degree of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a graspable knob positioned near or attached to the...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin
Collaborating in small groups can be beneficial to children’s learning and socializing. However, there is currently little computer support for children’s collaborative activities. This was our...
ThumbSpace: generalized one-handed input for touchscreen-based mobile devices (2007)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
Abstract. In this paper, we present ThumbSpace, a software-based interaction technique that provides general one-handed thumb operation of touchscreenbased mobile devices. Our goals are to provide...
Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson
Elementary-age children (ages 6-11) are among the largest user groups of computers and the Internet. Therefore, it is important to design searching and browsing tools that support them. However, many...
Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch It Grow (2006)
Lee, Bongshin, Sims Parr, Cynthia, Plaisant, Catherine, Bederson, Benjamin B.
TreePlus is a graph browsing technique based on a tree-style layout. It shows the missing graph structure using interaction techniques and enables users to start with a specific node and...
Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch It Grow (2006)
Lee, Bongshin, Sims Parr, Cynthia, Plaisant, Catherine, Bederson, Benjamin B.
TreePlus is a graph browsing technique based on a tree-style layout. It shows the missing graph structure using interaction techniques and enables users to start with a specific node and...
Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch It Grow (2006)
Lee, Bongshin, Sims Parr, Cynthia, Plaisant, Catherine, Bederson, Benjamin B.
TreePlus is a graph browsing technique based on a tree-style layout. It shows the missing graph structure using interaction techniques and enables users to start with a specific node and...
Studies in One-Handed Mobile Design: Habit, Desire and Agility (2006)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
In this paper we explore single handed mobile computing. Our approach is to understand how devices are currently used (habit), how users would prefer to interact with devices (desire) and the...
A.N.Kolmogorov: Three approaches to the quantitative definition of information (2006)
Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin
Elementary-age children (ages 3-13) are among the largest user groups of computers and the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing tools to support them. However, many such...
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...
Understanding Single-Handed Mobile Device Interaction (2006)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
A major challenge faced in the design of mobile devices is that they are typically used when the user has limited physical and attentional resources available. We are interested in the circumstances...
Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility (2006)
Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson, Aaron Clamage, Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Allison Druin
www.cs.umd.edu/hcil We describe the design and use of a system facilitating the sharing of calendar information between remotely located, multi-generational family members. Most previous work in this...
TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts (2006)
Bongshin Lee, Cynthia S. Parr, Catherine Plaisant, Benjamin B. Bederson, Vladislav D. Veksler, Wayne D. Gray, ...
Abstract—Despite extensive research, it is still difficult to produce effective interactive layouts for large graphs. Dense layout and occlusion make food webs, ontologies, and social networks...
A review of focus and context interfaces (2006)
Andy Cockburn, Amy Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused and contextual views. We review and categorise these schemes according to the interface mechanisms used to...
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...
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...
Paul S. Herrnson, Owen G. Abbe, Peter L. Francia (2005)
Center For American, Paul S. Herrnson, Owen G. Abbe, Peter L. Francia, Benjamin B. Bederson, Bongshin Lee, ...
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. Municipalities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch...
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...
Hilary Hutchinson, Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Kara Reuter, Anne Rose, Ann Carlson Weeks
Children are among the fastest growing groups of users of the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing interfaces, such as those found in digital libraries, to support them....
Interface Design for Children’s Searching and Browsing (2005)
Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin
Elementary-age children are among the largest user groups of computers and the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing tools that support them. However, many interfaces for...
Applens and launchtile: two designs for one-handed thumb use on small devices (2005)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
We have designed two interfaces to support one-handed thumb use for PDAs and cell phones. Both use Scalable User Interface (ScUI) techniques to support multiple devices with different resolutions and...
The International Children’s Digital Library: A Case Study in Designing for a MultiLingual (2005)
Hilary Browne Hutchinson, Anne Rose, Benjamin B. Bederson, Ann Carlson Weeks, Allison Druin
We describe the challenges encountered in building the International Children’s Digital Library, a freely available online library of children’s literature. These challenges include selecting and...
Applens and launchtile: two designs for one-handed thumb use on small devices (2005)
Amy K. Karlson, Benjamin B. Bederson
We present two interfaces to support one-handed thumb use for PDAs and cell phones. Both use Scalable User Interface (ScUI) techniques to support multiple devices with different resolutions and...
Replication data for: An Assessment of Voting Technology and Ballot Design (2005)
Paul S. Herrnson, Peter L. Francia, Benjamin B. Bederson, Bongshin Lee, Robert M. Sherman, Fred Conrad, ...
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. Municipalities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch...
Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (2004)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Jesse Grosjean, Jon Meyer
Abstract—In this paper, we analyze toolkit designs for building graphical applications with rich user interfaces, comparing polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions. Polylithic toolkits...
DateLens: A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs (2004)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Aaron Clamage, Mary P. Czerwinski, George G. Robertson
Calendar applications for small handheld devices are growing in popularity. This led us to develop DateLens, a novel calendar interface for PDAs designed to support complex tasks. It uses a fisheye...
How Users Interact with Biodiversity Information Using TaxonTree (2004)
Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Dana Campbell, Benjamin B. Bederson
Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underlying data schemas...
Visualizations for taxonomic and phylogenetic trees (2004)
Parr, Cynthia Sims, Lee, Bongshin, Campbell, Dana, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Motivation: Despite substantial efforts to develop and populate the back-ends of biological databases, front-ends to these systems often rely on taxonomic expertise. This research applies techniques...
Visualizations for taxonomic and phylogenetic trees (2004)
Parr, Cynthia Sims, Lee, Bongshin, Campbell, Dana, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Motivation: Despite substantial efforts to develop and populate the back-ends of biological databases, front-ends to these systems often rely on taxonomic expertise. This research applies techniques...
Visualizations for taxonomic and phylogenetic trees (2004)
Parr, Cynthia Sims, Lee, Bongshin, Campbell, Dana, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Motivation: Despite substantial efforts to develop and populate the back-ends of biological databases, front-ends to these systems often rely on taxonomic expertise. This research applies techniques...
Accuracy, Target Reentry and Fitts' Law Performance of Preschool Children Using Mice (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Guimbretiere, Francois
Several experiments by psychologists and human factors researchers have shown that when young children execute pointing tasks, they perform at levels below older children and adults. However, these...
Favorite Folders: A Configurable, Scalable File Browser (2003)
Lee, Bongshin Lee, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Microsoft Windows Explorer, the most widely used file browser in Microsoft Windows, shows almost all directories in the file system. However, most users usually access only a subset of the...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and its Effectiveness (2003)
Suh, Bongwon, Ling, Haibin, Bederson, Benjamin B., Jacobs, David W.
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval...
SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device (2003)
Chipman, Leslie E., Bederson, Benjamin B., Golbeck, Jennifer A.
The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position control of one degree of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a graspable knob positioned near or attached to the...
The International Children's Library: Viewing Digital Books Online (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Rose, Anne, Farber, Allison, Takayama, Yoshifumi
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their...
Building KidPad: An Application for Children's Collaborative Storytelling (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison
Collaborating in small groups can be beneficial to children's learning and socializing. However, there is currently little computer support for children's collaborative activities. This was our...
Accuracy, Target Reentry and Fitts' Law Performance of Preschool Children Using Mice (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Guimbretiere, Francois
Several experiments by psychologists and human factors researchers have shown that when young children execute pointing tasks, they perform at levels below older children and adults. However, these...
Favorite Folders: A Configurable, Scalable File Browser (2003)
Lee, Bongshin Lee, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Microsoft Windows Explorer, the most widely used file browser in Microsoft Windows, shows almost all directories in the file system. However, most users usually access only a subset of the...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and its Effectiveness (2003)
Suh, Bongwon, Ling, Haibin, Bederson, Benjamin B., Jacobs, David W.
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval...
SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device (2003)
Chipman, Leslie E., Bederson, Benjamin B., Golbeck, Jennifer A.
The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position control of one degree of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a graspable knob positioned near or attached to the...
The International Children's Library: Viewing Digital Books Online (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Rose, Anne, Farber, Allison, Takayama, Yoshifumi
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their...
Building KidPad: An Application for Children's Collaborative Storytelling (2003)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison
Collaborating in small groups can be beneficial to children's learning and socializing. However, there is currently little computer support for children's collaborative activities. This was our...
Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (2003)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Grosjean, Jesse, Meyer, Jon
In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions....
Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (2003)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Grosjean, Jesse, Meyer, Jon
In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions....
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...
The Craft of Information Visualization : Readings and Reflections (2003)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Shneiderman, Ben
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Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families (2003)
Hilary Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, Nicolas Roussel, Loïc Lacomme, ...
We describe a new methodology for designing technologies for and with families called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies introduced into families '...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and Its Effectiveness (2003)
Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, David W. Jacobs
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval...
A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: Providing overviews for small displays (2003)
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in performing planning...
Electronic voting system usability issues (2003)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Bongshin Lee, Robert M. Sherman
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. Municipalities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch...
Allison Druin, Glenda Revelle, Benjamin B. Bederson, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Allison Farber, Juhyun Lee, ...
Over the last three years, we have been developing a collaborative digital library interface where two children can collaborate using multiple mice on a single computer to access multimedia...
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Anne Rose, Allison Farber, Yoshifumi Takayama
Reading books plays an important role in children’s cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their...
Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families (2003)
Hilary Hutchinson, Wendy Mackay, Bosse Westerlund, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, ...
We describe a new method for use in the process of codesigning technologies with users called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies with three...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and Its Effectiveness (2003)
Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, David W. Jacobs
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and Its Effectiveness (2003)
Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, David W. Jacobs
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the objects in an image is important in many retrieval...
Accuracy, Target Reentry and Fitts’ Law Performance of Preschool Children Using Mice (2003)
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin
Several experiments by psychologists and human factors researchers have shown that when young children execute pointing tasks, they perform at levels below older children and adults. However, these...
Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families (2003)
Hilary Hutchinson, Wendy Mackay, Bosse Westerlund, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, ...
We describe a new method for use in the process of codesigning technologies with users called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies with three...
A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs: Providing overviews for small displays (2003)
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in performing planning...
SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device (2003)
Leslie Chipman Benjamin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Jennifer A. Golbeck
The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position control of one degree of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a graspable knob positioned near or attached to the...
AN EVALUATION OF MARYLAND'S NEW VOTING MACHINE (2002)
Herrnson, Paul S., Bederson, Benjamin B.
Four counties in Maryland used new touch screen voting machines in the 2002 elections, replacing their mechanical lever and punch card voting systems with the AccuVote-TS touch screen voting machine...
AN EVALUATION OF MARYLAND'S NEW VOTING MACHINE (2002)
Herrnson, Paul S., Bederson, Benjamin B.
Four counties in Maryland used new touch screen voting machines in the 2002 elections, replacing their mechanical lever and punch card voting systems with the AccuVote-TS touch screen voting machine...
Technology Probes: Inspiring Design for and with Families (2002)
Hutchinson, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Plaisant, Catherine, Mackay, Wendy, Evans, Helen, ...
We describe a new methodology for designing technologies for and with families called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies introduced into families' homes...
Hutchinson, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Plaisant, Catherine, Druin, Allison
Beginning in late July 2002, we conducted a survey about people's personal and family calendaring habits. By the end of September, we had over 400 responses, which are summarized below. The survey...
Electronic Voting System Usability Issues (2002)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Lee, Bongshin, Sherman, Robert M., Herrnson, Paul S., Niemi, Richard G.
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. Municipalities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch...
Technology Probes: Inspiring Design for and with Families (2002)
Hutchinson, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Plaisant, Catherine, Mackay, Wendy, Evans, Helen, ...
We describe a new methodology for designing technologies for and with families called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies introduced into families' homes...
Hutchinson, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Plaisant, Catherine, Druin, Allison
Beginning in late July 2002, we conducted a survey about people's personal and family calendaring habits. By the end of September, we had over 400 responses, which are summarized below. The survey...
Electronic Voting System Usability Issues (2002)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Lee, Bongshin, Sherman, Robert M., Herrnson, Paul S., Niemi, Richard G.
With the recent troubles in U.S. elections, there has been a nationwide push to update voting systems. Municipalities are investing heavily in electronic voting systems, many of which use a touch...
Plaisant, Catherine, Grosjean, Jesse, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We present a novel tree browser that builds on the conventional node link tree diagrams. It adds dynamic rescaling of branches of the tree to best fit the available screen space, optimized camera...
Druin, Allison, Revelle, Glenda, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Farber, Allison, Lee, Juhyun, ...
Over the last three years, we have been developing a collaborative digital library interface where two children can collaborate using multiple mice on a single computer to access multimedia...
A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs: Providing Overviews for Small Displays (2002)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Czerwinski, Mary P., Robertson, George G.
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in performing planning...
Plaisant, Catherine, Grosjean, Jesse, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We present a novel tree browser that builds on the conventional node link tree diagrams. It adds dynamic rescaling of branches of the tree to best fit the available screen space, optimized camera...
Druin, Allison, Revelle, Glenda, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Farber, Allison, Lee, Juhyun, ...
Over the last three years, we have been developing a collaborative digital library interface where two children can collaborate using multiple mice on a single computer to access multimedia...
A Fisheye Calendar Interface for PDAs: Providing Overviews for Small Displays (2002)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Czerwinski, Mary P., Robertson, George G.
Calendar applications for small handheld devices such as PDAs are growing in popularity. This led us to develop FishCal, a novel calendar interface for PDAs. It supports users in performing planning...
The International Children's Digital Library: Description and Analysis of First Use (2002)
Druin, Allison, Bederson, Benjamin B., Weeks, Ann, Farber, Allison, Grosjean, Jesse, Guha, Mona Leigh, ...
In this paper we describe the first version of the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). As a five-year research project, its mission is to enable children to access and read an...
The International Children's Digital Library: Description and Analysis of First Use (2002)
Druin, Allison, Bederson, Benjamin B., Weeks, Ann, Farber, Allison, Grosjean, Jesse, Guha, Mona Leigh, ...
In this paper we describe the first version of the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). As a five-year research project, its mission is to enable children to access and read an...
Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces With and Without an Overview (2002)
Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant
The literature on information visualization establishes the usability of interfaces with an overview of the information space, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. We compare zoomable...
Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces With and Without an Overview (2002)
Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant
The literature on information visualization establishes the usability of interfaces with an overview of the information space, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. We compare zoomable...
Automatic Text Reduction for Changing Size Constraints (2002)
Lance Good, Benjamin B. Bederson, Mark Stefik, Patrick Baudisch
This paper introduces a technique for viewing text objects under changing size constraints in 2D environments. Our approach automatically combines font size reduction and content reduction to...
OZONE: A Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology Information (2002)
Bongwon Suh, Benjamin B. Bederson
We present OZONE (Zoomable Ontology Navigator), for searching and browsing ontological information. OZONE visualizes query conditions and provides interactive, guided browsing for DAML (DARPA Agent...
Inspiring Design For, Hilary Hutchinson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Catherine Plaisant, Wendy Mackay, ...
We describe a new methodology for designing technologies for and with families called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies introduced into families'...
OZONE: A Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology Information (2002)
Bongwon Suh, Benjamin B. Bederson
We present OZONE (Zoomable Ontology Navigator), for searching and browsing ontological information. OZONE visualizes query conditions and provides interactive, guided browsing for DAML (DARPA Agent...
KidPad: a Collaborative Storytelling Tool for Children (2002)
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin, Gustav Taxén, Nottingham Ng Bb
Collaborative storytelling occurs frequently when children play, but relatively few efforts have been made to support it with computers. This demonstration presents KidPad, a collaborative...
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...
Browsing Icons: A Task-Based Approach for a Visual Web History (2001)
Mayer, Matthias, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We have implemented a task and session based visual web history tool called Browsing Icons that dynamically draws animated graphs of the user's paths through the web. Using a proxy, it can be...
Browsing Icons: A Task-Based Approach for a Visual Web History (2001)
Mayer, Matthias, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We have implemented a task and session based visual web history tool called Browsing Icons that dynamically draws animated graphs of the user's paths through the web. Using a proxy, it can be...
Designing an Interactive Message Board as a Technology Probe for Family Communication (2001)
Browne, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Plaisant, Catherine, Druin, Allison
In this paper, we describe the design issues and technical implementation of an interactive Family Message Board. The Family Message Board enables members of a distributed family to communicate with...
Designing an Interactive Message Board as a Technology Probe for Family Communication (2001)
Browne, Hilary, Bederson, Benjamin B., Plaisant, Catherine, Druin, Allison
In this paper, we describe the design issues and technical implementation of an interactive Family Message Board. The Family Message Board enables members of a distributed family to communicate with...
CounterPoint: Creating Jazzy Interactive Presentations (2001)
Good, Lance, Bederson, Benjamin B.
In this paper, we introduce Counterpoint, a zooming presentation tool. CounterPoint supports the construction of slide show style presentations with content arrangement in a 2.5D space. As with other...
CounterPoint: OZONE: A Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology (2001)
Suh, Bongwon, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We present OZONE (Zoomable Ontology Navigator), for searching and browsing ontological information. OZONE visualizes query conditions and provides interactive, guided browsing for DAML (DARPA Agent...
CounterPoint: Creating Jazzy Interactive Presentations (2001)
Good, Lance, Bederson, Benjamin B.
In this paper, we introduce Counterpoint, a zooming presentation tool. CounterPoint supports the construction of slide show style presentations with content arrangement in a 2.5D space. As with other...
CounterPoint: OZONE: A Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology (2001)
Suh, Bongwon, Bederson, Benjamin B.
We present OZONE (Zoomable Ontology Navigator), for searching and browsing ontological information. OZONE visualizes query conditions and provides interactive, guided browsing for DAML (DARPA Agent...
The International Children's Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online (2001)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Rose, Anne, Farber, Allison, Takayama, Yoshifumi
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their...
The International Children's Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online (2001)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison, Rose, Anne, Farber, Allison, Takayama, Yoshifumi
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their...
Browsing Icons: A Task-Based Approach for a Visual Web History (2001)
Matthias Mayer, Benjamin B. Bederson
We have implemented a task and session based visual web history tool called Browsing Icons that dynamically draws animated graphs of the user’s paths through the web. Using a proxy, it can be...
Hilary Browne, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant, Allison Druin
In this paper, we describe the design issues and technical implementation of an interactive Family Message Board. The Family Message Board enables members of a distributed family to communicate with...
Quantum treemaps and bubblemaps for a zoomable image browser (2001)
This paper describes two algorithms for laying out groups of objects in a 2D space-filling manner. Quantum Treemaps are a variation on existing treemap algorithms that are designed for laying out...
Young Children's Search Strategies and Construction of Search Queries (2001)
Glenda Revelle, Allison Druin, Michele Platner, Stacy Weng, Benjamin B. Bederson, Juan Pablo Hourcade, ...
This paper describes a quantitative study focused on two questions: (1) Can children understand and use a hierarchical domain structure to find particular instances of animals? (2) Can children...
Young Children's Search Strategies and Construction of Search Queries (2001)
Glenda Revelle, Allison Druin, Michele Platner, Stacy Weng, Benjamin B. Bederson, Juan Pablo Hourcade, ...
This paper describes a quantitative study focused on two questions: (1) Can children understand and use a hierarchical domain structure to find particular instances of animals? (2) Can children...
Navigation Patterns and Usability of Overview+Detail and Zoomable User Interfaces for Maps (2001)
Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant
The literature on information visualizations establishes the usability of overview+detail interfaces, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. We compare overview+detail and zoomable user...
Navigation Patterns and Usability of Overview+Detail and Zoomable User Interfaces for Maps (2001)
Kasper Hornbæk, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant
The literature on information visualizations establishes the usability of overview+detail interfaces, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. We compare overview+detail and zoomable user...
Hilary Browne, Benjamin B. Bederson, Catherine Plaisant, Allison Druin
In this paper, we describe the design issues and technical implementation of an interactive Family Message Board. The Family Message Board enables members of a distributed family to communicate with...
Quantum treemaps and bubblemaps for a zoomable image browser (2001)
This paper describes two algorithms for laying out groups of objects in a 2D space-filling manner. Quantum Treemaps are a variation on existing treemap algorithms that are designed for laying out...
Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Luederby, Jaime Tee, William Jones, Benjamin B. Bederson
Digital Store ” described our efforts to encode, store, and allow easy access to all of a person’s information for personal and professional use [1]. The goals included understanding the effort...
Young Children's Search Strategies and Construction of Search Queries (2000)
Revelle, Glenda, Druin, Allison, Platner, Michele, Weng, Stacy, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hourcade, Juan Pablo, ...
This paper describes a quantitative study focused on two questions: (1) Can children understand and use a hierarchical domain structure to find particular instances of animals? (2) Can children...
Young Children's Search Strategies and Construction of Search Queries (2000)
Revelle, Glenda, Druin, Allison, Platner, Michele, Weng, Stacy, Bederson, Benjamin B., Hourcade, Juan Pablo, ...
This paper describes a quantitative study focused on two questions: (1) Can children understand and use a hierarchical domain structure to find particular instances of animals? (2) Can children...
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...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children (2000)
Steve Benford I, Benjamin B. Bederson, Karl-petter Akesson, Victor Bayon, Allison Druin, Juan Pablo Hourcade, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
We introduce "fisheye menus" which apply traditional fisheye graphical visualization techniques to linear menus. This provides for an efficient mechanism to select items from long menus,...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children (2000)
Steve Benford, Benjamin B. Bederson, Karl-Petter Åkesson, Victor Bayon, Allison Druin, Pär Hansson, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children (2000)
Steve Benford Benjamin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Karl-petter Åkesson, Victor Bayon, Allison Druin, Pär Hansson, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage (2000)
Collaboration Between Young, Steve Benford, Benjamin B. Bederson, Karl-petter Åkesson, Victor Bayon, Allison Druin, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collaboration Between Young Children (2000)
Yngve Sundblad, Benjamin B. Bederson, Benjamin B. Bederson, Karl-petter Åkesson, Karl-petter Åkesson, Allison Druin, ...
Report number: CID-69
Single Display Groupware (1999)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Stewart, Jason, Druin, Allison
We discuss a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model,...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collabortion Between Young Children (1999)
Benford, Steve, Bederson, Benjamin B., Akesson, Karl-Petter, Bayon, Victor, Druin, Allison, Hansson, Par, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
Single Display Groupware (1999)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Stewart, Jason, Druin, Allison
We discuss a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model,...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collabortion Between Young Children (1999)
Benford, Steve, Bederson, Benjamin B., Akesson, Karl-Petter, Bayon, Victor, Druin, Allison, Hansson, Par, ...
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of designing interfaces to subtly encourage...
Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java (1999)
Bederson, Benjamin B., McAlister, Britt
Jazz is a new general-purpose toolkit that supports applications using zooming object-oriented 2D graphics. It is built entirely in Java using Java2D, and thus runs on all platforms that support Java...
Architecture and Implementation of a Java Package for Multiple Input Devices (MID) (1999)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B.
A major difficulty in writing Single Display Groupware (co-present collaborative) applications is getting input from multiple devices. We introduce MID, a Java package that addresses this problem and...
Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java (1999)
Bederson, Benjamin B., McAlister, Britt
Jazz is a new general-purpose toolkit that supports applications using zooming object-oriented 2D graphics. It is built entirely in Java using Java2D, and thus runs on all platforms that support Java...
Architecture and Implementation of a Java Package for Multiple Input Devices (MID) (1999)
Hourcade, Juan Pablo, Bederson, Benjamin B.
A major difficulty in writing Single Display Groupware (co-present collaborative) applications is getting input from multiple devices. We introduce MID, a Java package that addresses this problem and...
Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing? (1999)
Combs, Tammara T.A., Bederson, Benjamin B.
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed on the browsing...
Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing? (1999)
Combs, Tammara T.A., Bederson, Benjamin B.
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI). We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed on the browsing...
Single display groupware: a model for co-present collaboration (1999)
Jason Stewart, Benjamin B. Bederson, Allison Druin
We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe this...
Architecture and Implementation of a Java Package for Multiple Input Devices (MID (1999)
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson
A major difficulty in writing Single Display Groupware (co-present collaborative) applications is getting input from multiple devices. We introduce MID, a Java package that addresses this problem and...
Single display groupware: a model for co-present collaboration (1999)
Jason Stewart, Benjamin B. Bederson
We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe this...
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information (1999)
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user’s ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that animation improves users...
Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java (1999)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Britt Mcalister
Jazz is a new general-purpose toolkit that supports applications using zooming object-oriented 2D graphics. It is built entirely in Java using Java2D, and thus runs on all platforms that support Java...
Architecture and Implementation of a Java Package for Multiple Input Devices (MID (1999)
Juan Pablo Hourcade, Benjamin B. Bederson
A major difficulty in writing Single Display Groupware (co-present collaborative) applications is getting input from multiple devices. We introduce MID, a Java package that addresses this problem and...
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information? (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Boltman, Angela
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that animation improves users'...
Does a Sketchy Appearance Influence Drawing Behavior? (1998)
Meyer, Jon, Bederson, Benjamin B.
In this paper we examine the role of visual aesthetics in how people interact with computers. Specifically, we are interested in whether simply adopting a sketch-like visual appearance in a drawing...
Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-present Collaboration (1998)
Stewart, Jason, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison
We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe this...
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information? (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Boltman, Angela
We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that animation improves users'...
Does a Sketchy Appearance Influence Drawing Behavior? (1998)
Meyer, Jon, Bederson, Benjamin B.
In this paper we examine the role of visual aesthetics in how people interact with computers. Specifically, we are interested in whether simply adopting a sketch-like visual appearance in a drawing...
Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-present Collaboration (1998)
Stewart, Jason, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison
We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe this...
Context Based Temporal Reasoning and Analysis of Vehicular Activities from SAR EO Imagery (1998)
The objective of this effort was to extend the state of the art in Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) and closely related interface techniques to support the Command Post of the Future (CPoF) and...
Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing? (1998)
Combs, Tammara A., Bederson, Benjamin B.
We describe an image retrieval system we built based on a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI);. We also discuss the design, results and analysis of a controlled experiment we performed on the browsing...
Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Meyer, Jon, Good, Lance
In this paper the authors investigate the use of scene graphs as a general approach for implementing two-dimensional (2D) graphical applications, and in particular Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs)....
Introduced are "fisheye menus" which apply traditional fisheye graphical visualization techniques to linear menus. This provides for an efficient mechanism to select items from long menus, which are...
Zoomable User Interfaces as a Medium for Slide Show Presentations (1998)
Good, Lance, Bederson, Benjamin B.
In this paper, the authors propose Zoomable User Interfaces as an alternative presentation medium to address several common presentation problems. Zoomable User Interfaces offer a new technique for...
Ozone: a Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology Information (1998)
Suh, Bongwon, Bederson, Benjamin B.
This report presents OZONE (Zoomable Ontology Navigator) for searching and browsing ontological information. OZONE visualizes query conditions and provides interactive, guided browsing for DAML...
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information? (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Boltman, Angela
This study examines how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. The 20 subjects were asked to...
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...
Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces With and Without an Overview (1998)
Hornbaek, Kasper, Bederson, Benjamin B., Plaisant, Catherine
The literature on information visualization establishes the usability of interfaces with an overview of the information space, but for zoomable user interfaces, results are mixed. The authors...
PhotoMesa: A Zoomable Image Browser Using Quantum Treemaps and Bubblemaps (1998)
PhotoMesa is a zoomable image browser that uses a novel treemap algorithm to present large numbers of images grouped by directory, or other available metadata. It uses a new interaction technique for...
Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints (1998)
Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, Jonathan I., Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D.
We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development...
Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Grosjean, Jesse, Meyer, Jon
In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions....
TaxonTree: Visualizing Biodiversity Information (1998)
Parr, Cynthia S., Lee, Bongshin, Campbell, Dana, Bederson, Benjamin B.
Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underlying data schemas....
Single Display Groupware (1998)
Bederson, Benjamin B., Stewart, Jason, Druin, Allison
We discuss a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model,...
Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-Present Collaboration (1998)
Stewart, Jason, Bederson, Benjamin B., Druin, Allison
We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe this...
Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints (1998)
Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, Jonathan I., Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D.
We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development...
Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints (1998)
Hightower, Ron R., Ring, Laura T., Helfman, Jonathan I., Bederson, Benjamin B., Hollan, James D.
We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development...
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++ {high, lring, bederson, jon,
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++ {high, lring, bederson, jon,
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++ {high, lring, bederson, jon,
Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron Hightower Laura, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development...
Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron Hightower Laura, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
We have implemented a browser companion called PadPrints that dynamically builds a graphical history-map of visited web pages. PadPrints relies on Pad++, a zooming user interface (ZUI) development...
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++
Graphical multiscale web histories: A study of PadPrints (1998)
Ron R. Hightower, Laura T. Ring, Jonathan I. Helfman, Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
www.cs.unm.edu/pad++
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Jason Stewart, David Rogers, Allison Druin, David Vick
The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming increasingly important for business, education, and entertainment. Popular web browsers make access to Internet information resources relatively easy for novice...
Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics (1996)
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Ken Perlin, Jonathan Meyer, David Bacon, George Furnas
user interface management system (UIMS). We describe Pad++, a zoomable graphical sketchpad that we are exploring as an alternative to traditional window and icon-based interfaces. We discuss the...
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Jason Stewart, David Rogers, Allison Druin, David Vick
The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming increasingly important for business, education, and entertainment. Popular web browsers make access to Internet information resources relatively easy for novice...
PAD++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics (1995)
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan, Ken Perlin, Jonatham Meyer, David Bacon, George Furnas
We describe Pad++, a zoomable graphical sketchpad that we are exploring as an alternative to traditional window and icon-based interfaces. We discuss the motivation for Pad++, describe the...
Pad++: a zoomable graphical interface system (1995)
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan
© ACM Large information spaces are often difficult to access efficiently and intuitively. We are exploring Pad++, a graphical interface system based on zooming, as an alternative to traditional...
Space Variant Image Processing (1993)
Richard S. Wallace, Ping-wen Ong, Benjamin B. Bederson, Eric L. Schwartz
This paper describes a graph-based approach to image processing, intended for use with images obtained from sensors having space variant sampling grids. The connectivity graph (CG) is presented as a...
A miniature space-variant active vision system: Cortex-I (1992)
We have developed a prototype miniaturized active vision system whose sensor architecture is based on a logarithmically structured space-variant pixel geometry. A space-variant image's...
Voice-bandwidth visual communication through logmaps: The Telecortex (1992)
Richard Wallace Benjamin, Richard S. Wallace, Benjamin B. Bederson, Eric L. Schwartz
We present a robotic video telephone application of the Cortex-1 miniaturized space-variant active vision system. The embedded processor architecture of Cortex-1 enables it to implement a variety of...
A Miniaturized Active Vision System (1992)
Benjamin B. Bederson, Eric L. Schwartz, Richard S. Wallace
We have developed a prototype miniaturized active vision system whose sensor architecture is based on a logarithmic structured space-variant pixel geometry. This system integrates a CCD sensor, mini...