The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections.
Language: English
Published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 2007
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Collection of 38 seminal papers on human-computer interaction. 410 pages, index, appendices. First few pages creased, otherwise light wear. For professionals, researchers, educators, and students.
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- Title
- The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections.
- Author
- Written and edited by Benjamin B. Bederson and Ben Schneiderman.
- Publisher
- Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Fine.
- Binding
- Large format softcover.
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1558609156
- ISBN 13
- 9781558609150
- Seller catalogs
- Electronics, Technology
This book collects 38 of the key papers on information visualization from a leading and prominent research lab, the University of Maryland’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Celebrating HCIL’s 20th anniversary, this book presents a coherent body of work from a respected community that has had many success stories with its research and commercial spin-offs.
Each chapter contains an introduction specifically written for this volume by two leading HCI researchers, to describe the connections among those papers and reveal HCIL’s individual approach to developing innovations.
*Presents key ideas, novel interfaces, and major applications of information visualization tools, embedded in inspirational prototypes.
*Techniques can be widely applied in scientific research, digital libraries, data mining, financial data analysis, business market studies, manufacturing production control, drug discovery, and genomic studies.
*Provides an "insider" view to the scientific process and evolution of innovation, as told by the researchers themselves.
*This work comes from the prominent and high profile University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab
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About the Author
Ben Shneiderman is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL), and Member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Shneiderman lectures and consults internationally, while serving on corporate advisory boards and producing widely used textbooks. He was made a Fellow of the ACM in 1997, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001, and received the ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
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