Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Member of the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland
at College Park. He has taught previously at the State University of New York and at Indiana University. He regularly teaches popular short courses and organizes an annual satellite television presentation on User Interface Strategies seen by thousands of professionals since 1987.
Dr. Shneiderman 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 (1987, second edition 1992), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His 1989 book, co-authored with Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-O
n!, contains a hypertext version on two disks. He is the originator of the Hyperties hypermedia system, now produced by Cognetics Corp., Princeton Junction, NJ. In addition he has co-authored two textbooks, edited three technical books, published more
than 160 technical papers and book chapters. His 1993 edited book Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction collects 25 papers from the past 10 years of r
esearch at the University of Maryland.
Ben Shneiderman has been on the Editorial Advisory Boards of nine journals including the newly formed ACM Transactions on Computer- Human Interaction and the ACM Interactions. He edits the Ablex Publishing Co. book series on "Human-Computer Interaction."
He has consulted and lectured for many organizations including Apple, AT&T, Citicorp, GE, Honeywell, IBM, Intel, Library of Congress, NASA, NCR, and university research groups.