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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