Seminar on Information Visualisation 14/10/99 School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

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Seminar attended by Jeremy Karl Cockcroft (for PD) & Huub Driessen (for PX)

Email from the Master:

Dear Colleagues,

Next Thursday 14th October at 2.30pm Professor Ben Shneiderman, one of the world's leading researchers in Human Computer Interaction, will give a lecture demonstration in the Clore Lecture Theatre. All are most welcome. Please feel free to invite colleagues from other institutions.

Prof Tim O'Shea

Abstract

Information Visualization for Access to Digital Libraries

This talk will present information visualization strategies that enable researchers, teachers, and students to find relevant information in vast digital libraries and educational information resources. The key strategy is:

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

For example, the starfield display shows a document collection in a two-dimensional color-coded user-controlled workspace. A demo of the commercial version of this technique, Spotfire, is available [http://www.spotfire.com]. Our projects with NASA's vast environmental datasets, the US National Library of Medicine's Visible Human, US Library of Congress National Digital Library, and WestGroup's legal information provide additional examples. Videotapes of these and other visualizations will be shown.

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies and for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Dr. Shneiderman is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (1987, second edition 1992, third edition 1998), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His 1989 book, co- authored with Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-On!, contains a hypertext version on two disks. It was the world's first commercial electronic book and pioneered the highlighted embedded link. This concept was part of the Hyperties hypermedia system, now produced by Cognetics Corp., Princeton Junction, NJ.

Dr. Shneiderman has co-authored three textbooks, edited three technical books, and published more than 200 technical papers and book chapters. His 1993 edited book Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction collects 25 papers from ten years of research at the University of Maryland. This collection includes Dr. Shneiderman's seminal paper on direct manipulation, a term he coined in 1981 to describe the graphical user interface design principles: visual presentation of objects and actions combined with pointing techniques to accomplish rapid incremental and reversible operations. His current work on information visualization has led to a commercial product called Spotfire. A collection of 43 key papers with extensive commentary - Using Vision to Think - appeared in January 1999 (with S. Card and J. Mackinlay).

Ben Shneiderman is on the Board of Directors of Spotfire Inc. and has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of nine journals. He has consulted and lectured for many organizations including Apple, AT&T, Citicorp, GE, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Library of Congress, Microsoft, NASA, and university research groups.

Ben Shneiderman received his BS from City College of New York in 1968, his PhD from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1996 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997.

Ben Shneiderman Department of Computer Science University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742

Personal: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben
Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/

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