| CHI 98 Conference Program | April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA |
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Ben Shneiderman
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/
A handwritten codex or printed book transformed society by allowing users to preserve and share information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts have given way to animated image maps and hot links. Vannevar Bush's memex has inspired the World Wide Web, which provides users with vast information resources and convenient communications. In looking to the future, we might again transform society by building a genex, a generator of excellence. Such an inspirational environment would empower personal and collaborative creativity by enabling users to:
This talk describes how a family of integrated software tools might support this four-phase model of creativity in health, education, entertainment and beyond.
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. He received an honorary doctorate of science from Guelph University in 1995 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997.
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, produced by Cognetics Corporation, Princeton Junction, NJ. His starfield displays with dynamic queries has been implemented in the commercial product Spotfire.
Dr. Shneiderman has co-authored two 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.