Ben Bederson

Professor Emeritus

3171 A.V. Williams Building

(301) 405-2764

Academic Web Page

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

1999

Bederson BB, Boltman A. 1999. Does animation help users build mental maps of spatial information? Information Visualization, 1999.(Info Vis' 99) Proceedings. 1999 IEEE Symposium on. :28-35.

1998

Stewart J, Raybourn E, Bederson BB, Druin A. 1998. When Two Hands Are Better Than One: Enhancing Collaboration Using Single Display Groupware. CHI’98. Extended Abstracts. :287-288.

Bederson BB, Meyer J. 1998. Implementing a zooming User Interface: experience building Pad++. Software: Practice and Experience. 28(10):1101-1135.

1997

Druin A, Stewart J, Proft D, Bederson BB, Hollan J. 1997. KidPad: a design collaboration between children, technologists, and educators. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :463-470.

Bederson BB, Hollan JD, Stewart J, Rogers D, Druin A, Vick D, Ring L, Grose E, Forsythe C. 1997. A zooming web browser. Human Factors in Web Development.

1996

Bederson BB, Hollan JD, Druin A, Stewart J, Rogers D, Proft D. 1996. Local tools: an alternative to tool palettes. Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :169-170.

1995

Bederson BB, Wallace RS, Schwartz E. 1995. A miniaturized space-variant active vision system: Cortex-I. Machine Vision and applications. 8(2):101-109.

Furnas GW, Bederson BB. 1995. Space-scale diagrams: understanding multiscale interfaces. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :234-241.

1994

Wallace RS, Ong PW, Bederson BB, Schwartz EL. 1994. Space variant image processing. International Journal of Computer Vision. 13(1):71-90.

Bederson BB, Wallace RS, Schwartz EL. 1994. A miniature pan-tilt actuator: the spherical pointing motor. IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. 10(3):298-308.

1993

Bederson BB, Wallace RS, Schwartz EL. 1993. Control and design of the spherical pointing motor. , 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993. Proceedings. :630-636vol.2-630-636vol.2.

1992

Bederson BB, Wallace RS, Schwartz EL. 1992. Two miniature pan-tilt devices. Robotics and Automation, 1992. Proceedings., 1992 IEEE International Conference on. :658-663.

Wallace RS, Bederson BB, Schwartz EL. 1992. Voice-bandwidth visual communication through logmaps: the Telecortex. Applications of Computer Vision, Proceedings, 1992., IEEE Workshop on. :4-10.