IP: webcast talk: User Interfaces for Information Visualization

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Subject: Shneiderman on User Interfaces for Information Visualization * W 
>4:15
>Gates B03
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>COMPUTER SYTEMS LABORATORY COLLOQUIUM
>4:15PM, Wednesday, October 18, 2000
>NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
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>Title:          User Interfaces for Information Visualization
>                 The Eyes Have It
>
>Speaker:        Ben Shneiderman
>                 University of Maryland
>
>About the talk:
>
>Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely underutilized
>by current graphical user interfaces. The next generation of
>animated GUIs and visual data mining tools can provide users with
>remarkable capabilities if designers follow the Visual
>Information-Seeking Mantra:
>
>    Overview first, zoom and filter, then details-on-demand.
>
>But this is only a starting point in the path to understanding
>the rich set of information visualizations that have been
>proposed. Two other landmarks are:
>
>    Direct manipulation: visual representation of the objects and actions
>    of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations
>
>    Dynamic queries: user controlled query widgets, such as sliders and
>    buttons, that update the result set within 100msec.
>
>and are shown in the HomeFinder, Visible Human Explorer (for
>National Library of Medicine's anatomical data), NASA EOSDIS (for
>environmental data), LifeLines (for medical records and personal
>histories), Spotfire (commercial multidimensional visualization
>tool), and Treemaps (for hierarchical data).
>
>As a guide to research, information visualizations can be
>categorized in to 7 datatypes (1-, 2-, 3-dimensional data,
>temporal and multi-dimensional data, and tree and network data)
>and 7 tasks (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate,
>history, and extract). Research directions include algorithms for
>rapid display update with millions of data points, strategies to
>explore vast multi-dimensional spaces of linked data, and design
>of advanced user controls.
>
>About the speaker:
>
>Personal: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben [1]
>Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil [2]
>
>Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer
>Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) 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 Designing the User Interface:
>Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (third
>edition 1998), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His work
>on information visualization has led to a commercial product
>called Spotfire. A collection of 47 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
>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.
>
>Contact information:
>
>Ben Shneiderman
>Department of Computer Science
>University of Maryland
>College Park, MD 20742
>301- 405-2680
>ben@cs.umd.edu
>
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