Ben Bederson
Professor Emeritus
3171 A.V. Williams Building
(301) 405-2764
Education:
Ph.D., New York University (Computer Science)
Special Awards/Honors:
2012 ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2012 CHI Academy, 2010 SIGCHI Social Impact Award, 2009 Digital Education Award
Biography:
Ben Bederson is a professor emeritus of computer science in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
His research spans human computation, mobile device interfaces, and digital education. Bederson is known for his work on zoomable user interfaces and children's educational technologies.
Publications
2011
2011. Creating contextual help for GUIs using screenshots. Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :145-154.
2010
2010. Error driven paraphrase annotation using Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Creating Speech and Language Data with Amazon's Mechanical Turk. :217-221.
2010. Improving translation via targeted paraphrasing. Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. :127-137.
2009
2009. From New Zealand to Mongolia: Co-designing and deploying a digital library for the world's children. Special issue of Children, Youth and Environments: Children in Technological Environments: Interaction, Development, and Design.
2009. Designing the reading experience for scanned multi-lingual picture books on mobile phones. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. :305-308.
2008
2008. A review of overview+ detail, zooming, and focus+ context interfaces. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). 41(1):1-31.
2008. Readability of scanned books in digital libraries. Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :705-714.
2008. One-handed touchscreen input for legacy applications. Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :1399-1408.
2008. Enhancing In-Car Navigation Systems with Personal Experience. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2064(-1):33-42.
2007
2007. NetLens: Iterative Exploration of Content-Actor Network Data. Information VisualizationInformation Visualization. 6(1):18-31.
2007. EcoLens: Integration and interactive visualization of ecological datasets. Ecological Informatics. 2(1):61-69.
2007. Supporting elementary-age children's searching and browsing: Design and evaluation using the international children's digital library. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(11):1618-1630.
2007. Thumbspace: Generalized one-handed input for touchscreen-based mobile devices. Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction. :324-338.
2007. Children's interests and concerns when using the international children's digital library: a four-country case study. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. :167-176.
2007. NetLens: iterative exploration of content-actor network data. Information Visualization. 6(1):18-31.
2007. Capture, annotate, browse, find, share: novel interfaces for personal photo management. International Journal of Human-] Computer Interaction. 23(3):315-337.
2007. Semi-automatic photo annotation strategies using event based clustering and clothing based person recognition. Interacting with Computers. 19(4):524-544.
2006
2006. TreePlus: Interactive Exploration of Networks with Enhanced Tree Layouts. Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on. 12(6):1414-1426.
2006. Target size study for one-handed thumb use on small touchscreen devices. Proceedings of the 8th conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services. :203-210.
2006. Shared family calendars: Promoting symmetry and accessibility. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.. 13(3):313-346.
2006. The evolution of the international children's digital library searching and browsing interface. Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children. :105-112.
2006. Exploring content-actor paired network data using iterative query refinement with NetLens. Digital Libraries, 2006. JCDL '06. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on. :372-372.
2006. Visualizing Graphs as Trees: Plant a Seed and Watch it Grow. Graph DrawingGraph Drawing. 3843:516-518.
2006. Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search. 49(4):69-71.
2005
2005. Content Index to Volume 18. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN–COMPUTER INTERACTION. 18(3):367-368.
2005. The International Children’s Digital Library: A Case Study in Designing for a MultiLingual. Multi-Cultural, Multi-Generational Audience. Information Technology and Libraries.
2005. Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience.
2005. Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience. :9-9.
2005. How do I find blue books about dogs? The errors and frustrations of young digital library users Proceedings of HCII 2005.
2004
2004. Preschool children's use of mouse buttons. CHI'04 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. :1411-1412.
2004. Toolkit design for interactive structured graphics. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 30(8):535-546.
2004. Visualizations for taxonomic and phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics. 20(17):2997-2997.
2004. DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 11(1):90-119.
2004. Pocket PhotoMesa: a Zoomable image browser for PDAs. Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia. :19-24.
2004. SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device. Behaviour & Information Technology. 23(1):1-9.
2004. Building KidPad: an application for children's collaborative storytelling. Software: Practice and Experience. 34(9):895-914.
2003
2003. A collaborative digital library for children. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 19(2):239-248.
2003. Electronic voting system usability issues. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :145-152.
2003. Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Previews and Overviews in a Prototype for the Library of Congress National Digital Library. The craft of information visualization: readings and reflections. :388-388.
2003. Starting an intergenerational technology design team: a case study. Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Interaction design and children. :51-58.
2003. Family Calendar Survey. Technical Reports from UMIACS.
2003. Innovating the Interaction. The craft of information visualization: readings and reflectionsThe craft of information visualization: readings and reflections. :295-295.
2003. Navigation patterns & usability of zoomable user interfaces: with and without an overview. interactions. 10(1):11-12.
2003. Accuracy, Target Reentry and Fitts’ Law Performance of Preschool Children Using Mice. University of Maryland Technical Report, HCIL-2003. 16
2003. Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews. The Craft of Information VisualizationThe Craft of Information Visualization. :31-37.
2003. The International Children's Digital Library. First Monday. 8(5-5)
2003. LifeLines: Using Visualization to Enhance Navigation and Analysis of Patient Records. The Craft of Information VisualizationThe Craft of Information Visualization. :308-312.
2003. Automatic thumbnail cropping and its effectiveness. Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :95-104.
2003. Seeing the World Through Image Libraries. The craft of information visualization: readings and reflectionsThe craft of information visualization: readings and reflections. :47-47.
2003. Visual Information Management for Network Configuration. The Craft of Information VisualizationThe Craft of Information Visualization. :239-256.
2003. The International Children's Digital Library: Description and analysis of first use. First Monday. 8(5):315-315.
2003. Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :17-24.
2003. Designing a digital library for young children: An intergenerational partnership. The craft of information visualization: readings and reflections. 178
2003. Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces. The craft of information visualization: readings and reflectionsThe craft of information visualization: readings and reflections. :83-83.
2003. Automatic thumbnail cropping and its effectiveness. Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :95-104.
2003. The International Children's Digital Library: viewing digital books online. Interacting with Computers. 15(2):151-167.
2002
2002. Zoomable user interfaces as a medium for slide show presentations. Information Visualization. 1(1):35-35.
2002. OZONE: A zoomable interface for navigating ontology information. Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. :139-143.
2002. SpaceTree: Design evolution of a node link tree browser. Proc. InfoVis. :57-64.
2002. Ordered and quantum treemaps: Making effective use of 2D space to display hierarchies. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG). 21(4):833-854.
2002. A visual search tool for early elementary science students. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 11(1):49-57.
2002. SpaceTree: supporting exploration in large node link tree, design evolution and empirical evaluation. Information Visualization, 2002. INFOVIS 2002. IEEE Symposium on. :57-64.
2002. Navigation patterns and usability of zoomable user interfaces with and without an overview. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 9(4):362-389.
2001
2001. Designing an Interactive Message Board as a Technology Probe for Family Communication. Technical Reports of the Computer Science Department.
2000
2000. Designing storytelling technologies to encouraging collaboration between young children. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :556-563.
2000. Jazz: an extensible zoomable user interface graphics toolkit in Java. Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :171-180.
2000. Domain name based visualization of Web histories in a zoomable user interface. 11th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2000. Proceedings. :591-598.
1999
1999. Does animation help users build mental maps of spatial information? Information Visualization, 1999.(Info Vis' 99) Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on. :28-35.
1999. Does zooming improve image browsing. Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries. :130-137.