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Seminar
The Eyes Have It:
User Interfaces for Information Visualization.
Speaker: Prof. Ben Shneiderman.
Institute: Computer Science Department; University of Maryland; USA.
Time/Place: 10:00 AM, Wed, 5 Mar, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
Abstract
Human perceptual skills are remarkable, but largely under utilized
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.
Then dynamic queries allow user control of widgets, such as sliders and buttons that update the result set within 100 msec. Seven types of information visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional data, temporal, tree and network data). Demos include multi-dimensional data in dynamic scattergrams (), geographic presentations in dynamic choropleth maps, and time series data applied to financial and genomic data.
Examples of hierarchical data presentations include treemaps for stock market data (), production monitoring/product catalogs (), and Census data.
Biography
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 & 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.
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" (3rd ed. 1998) 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). His new book Leonardo's Laptop appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press) (http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop).
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