Graph Drawing 2012 Day 1 – Invited Talk Ben Shneiderman

14:00 – 15:00-Invited Talk
Chair: Ioannis G. Tollis
Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) – Joint work with Cody Dunne

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee break

Speaker Bios

BEN SHNEIDERMAN (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben) is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/) , and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Ben 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» (4th ed. April 2004) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/. He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the web. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored «Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think» (1999). With Ben Bederson he co-authored «The Craft of Information Visualization» (2003). His book «Leonardo’s Laptop» appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press) (http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop).

Cody Dunne is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on information visualization, specifically on improving the readability of network visualizations and the application of network analysis techniques to real-world problems. Some examples include visualizing citations in academic literature, interactions of people and organizations, relationships in archaeological dig sites, term co-occurrence, thesaurus category relationships, and computer network traffic flow. He is a contributor to the NodeXL project, an open source network visualization template for Microsoft Excel. Cody earned a B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Cornell College in 2007 and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 2009.

Date:
Haut-parleurs:
Ben Shneiderman and Cody Dunne
Affiliation:
University of Maryland