Event
Special Seminar: Ben Shneiderman, "The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations"
Friday, October 2, 2015
2:00 p.m.
1146 A.V. Williams Building
Rebecca Copeland
301 405 6602
rebeccac@umd.edu
Special Seminar
The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations
Ben Shneiderman
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
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Abstract
Responding to the immense problems of the 21st century will require devoted research teams with passionate leaders who are skilled at nurturing individuals, weaving networks, and cultivating communities. The growing evidence shows that research teams with raised ambitions to find practical solutions and seek foundational theories simultaneously have a greater chance of achieving both (ABC Principle: Applied & Basic Combined).
This talk (and forthcoming book from Oxford University Press) respond to the changing research ecosystem that lowers the barriers to team work and facilitates realistic interventions at scale with external partners. A growing necessity is to promote our research (social media, Wikipedia, blogs, videos, twitter, etc.) and use new impact measures (download counts, citations, network measures, etc.). My hope is to enable young researchers to thrive in the emerging ecosystems and senior researchers and administrators to revise policies to improve education, support collaborations, broaden outreach, and increase impact.
Biography
Ben Shneiderman is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and a Member of the UM Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland. He is an affiliate faculty of the Institute for Systems Research. Shneiderman is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to human-computer interaction and information visualization. His contributions include the direct manipulation concept, clickable highlighted web-links, touchscreen keyboards, dynamic query sliders for Spotfire, development of treemaps, novel network visualizations for NodeXL, and temporal event sequence analysis for electronic health records.
Ben is the co-author with Catherine Plaisant of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th ed., 2010). With Stu Card and Jock Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). His book Leonardo’s Laptop appeared in October 2002 (MIT Press) and won the IEEE book award for Distinguished Literary Contribution. His latest book, with Derek Hansen and Marc Smith, is Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL (2010).
