Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947 in New York City ) is an American computer scientist who currently teaches as a professor of computer science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park .
Life
Shneiderman worked for Stony Brook University from 1968 to 1972, among other things , in the fields of database optimization and structure diagrams . In 1973 he completed his doctorate. In 1982, at the University of Maryland, he began developing TIES (The Interactive Encyclopedia System) , later known as Hypertext System Hyperties . Since 1989 he has been Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and since 1997 a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
meaning
Ben Shneiderman has done essential groundwork both in the specification of sequential programs and in the field of hypertext and the design of human-machine communication processes . He coined the terms hotlink and embedded menu and was one of the first computer scientists to recognize the importance of user interfaces . Shneiderman believed that improving the interfaces could increase the effectiveness and popularity of computers.
Together with Isaac Nassi , he developed the Nassi-Shneiderman diagram , a graphic representation of program sequences that has since become the DIN standard DIN 66261 .
Shneiderman is also known for the mantra of the information search (English Visual Information Seeking Mantra), which describes the order in which interaction options should be provided to the user.
In recent years, Shneiderman has focused on information visualization and especially on tree map concepts. These works can be seen in the Treemap Art Project.
Awards
In 2001 he was honored with the ACM SIGCHI (Special Interest Group Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award for his life's work .
Fonts
- Software psychology. Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems. Little, Brown and Co. (formerly Winthrop), 1980, ISBN 0-87626-816-5 .
- Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 0-262-69299-6 (winner of the IEEE 2004 award for Distinguished Literary Contribution ).
- together with C. Plaisant: Designing the User Interface. Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. 4th edition. Addison-Wesley, 2004 (first published 1987), ISBN 0-321-26978-0 .
- Hypertext Hands-On !. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1989, ISBN 0-201-15171-5 .
See also
Web links
- Homepage of Ben Shneiderman
- Biography Ben Shneiderman
- About B. Shneiderman
- Visual information seeking mantra
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shneiderman, Ben |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York , USA |