For the Press
For information about the HCIL, contact lab director Ben Bederson at (301) 405-2764 or bederson@cs.umd.edu. Many of the faculty are available for interviews, comments, etc. Contact the faculty directly, or contact the director to find the most relevant person.
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Past Press Coverage
Ben Bederson discusses broadband at home on "Computer Guy - life in the fast lane." WAMU Kojo Nnamdi Show, May 2006
Ben Shneiderman and Timesearcher are featured in, "The Surest Path to Visual Discovery." Business Intelligent Network, April 2006
Ben Bederson is quoted in, "Experts See Computers Getting Bigger and Smaller at the same time." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 2006
Ben Bederson and PhotoMesa are featured in, "PhotoMesa a nifty way to organize photographs." Baltimore Sun, March 2006
Ben Shneiderman presents a Spotfire webcast: The Thrill of Discovery - Accelerating Information Exploration, Spotfire Webcast, March 2006
Ben Bederson is interviewed regarding "Wiki Sites." WAMU Kojo Nnamdi Show, February 2006
Ben Bederson is quoted in "Spreading the e-word," an article about Sony's new ebook reader e-paper. Baltimore Sun, February 2006
Ben Shneiderman profiled with five questions and a portrait, Information Week, January 2006.
Ben Bederson is interviewed in, "What was I doing again?" an article about computer distractions. Washington Business Journal, January 2006
ICDL is featured in "The 'millenials' usher in a new era," an article about the future of children learning online, c|net News.com, November 2005.
ICDL is highlighted in "Screen time = reading time," an article about children reading books on the computer. Chicago Parent, September 2005.
ICDL is mentioned in an article titled "Site Seeing," which highlighted Kid's literature on the internet. Delphos Herald, September 2005.
Ben Bederson and Ben Shneiderman mentioned in an article that
highlights TimeSearcher
DM Review, Data
Visualization, Graphic Grist for the Mill, June 2005
Ben Shneiderman
quoted on social tagging of photos
and web pages
Associated Press, May,
2005
Kent
Norman talks about Computer Rage
America News, "Why
Can't They Make Computers That Don't Crash?", May 2005
Kent
Norman talks about Computer RageSpot on Good Morning America (ABC)
"Computer Rage"(MOV 6.3MB), May 2005
Kent
Norman talks about Computer Rage in The Washington Post
"Repair Teams Try to Calm 'Computer Rage'", May 2005
Kent
Norman featured in an article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
"Got computer rage? Expert suggests safe ways to vent",
May 2005
Kent
Norman interviewed in an article in Voice of America News
"Why Can't They Make Computers That Don't Crash?",
May 2005
Kent
Norman quoted in an article in The Washington Post
"Repair Teams Try to Calm 'Computer Rage", May 2005
Ben Bederson’s research with Microsoft on the use of PDA’s and cellphones
highlighted
EE Times, April 2005. This
article was also picked up by Information Week.
Kent
Norman highlighted in an Article in San Francisco Chronicle
"Computer glitches spawn new industry: Geeks find steady supply of vexed users
who need house calls", April 2005.
Kent
Norman interviewed by Mike Goldfein (Belo Capitol Bureau)
"Computer Rage"(MOV 4.3MB), April 2005
Ben Bederson’s work described in folha equilibrio (Brazil)
In
an article about computer-based distraction, March 2005.
Ben Bederson interviewed on Radio City (Ecuador), a BBC
Affiliate
March
2005.
Ben Bederson quoted regarding E-Attention Deficit Disorder
The Statesman (India), March 2005
Kent
Norman talks about Computer Rage in an article on MSNBC.com
"Drop the mouse and step away from the PC: Frustrated consumers make things
worse after computer crash" , March 200
Allison Druin’s projects on online books highlighted
The Washington
Times, February 2005
Ben Bederson quoted on computer distractions
North Carolina State
Technician, February
2005
Ben Bederson interviewed regarding attention
and interruptions on the computer
Bloomberg Radio, February 2005
Ben Bederson addresses computer user distractions
New
York Times, February
2005
Allison Druin featured in Technology Review
February 2005
Allison Druin featured in School Library Journal
February 2005
Kent
Norma interviewed in an article in The Washington Times
"Fist-clenching anger: Releasing the steam without boiling over",
February 2005
Kent
Norman talks about Computer Rage in the San Angelo Standard-Times
"Computer rage on the rise", January 2005
Kent Norman interviewed by W*USA Channel 9 News Reporter Bruce Leshan
"Report on Computer Rage" (MOV 4.1MB),
January 2005
Kent
Norman in an article by the Baltimore Sun
"High-tech gifts elevate post-holiday stress",
December 2004
Kent Norman was a guest on the W*USA Channel 9 News at
9am with Reporter Audrey Barnes
"Report on Computer Rage", December
2004
Kent
Norman interviewed in SlashDot.com (News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters) posting
"Rage Against the Machines", December 2004
Kent
Norman talks about Computer Rage in Technology Review
"Rage Against the Machines",
December 2004
Kent Norman was the guest on the Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU, 88.5 FM) Tech
Tuesday
"Technology
Frustrations", December 2004
Kent Norman
interviewed by Jim Gordon of NPR on Future Tense
"Venting your rage against computers", December 2004
Kent
Norman featured in a University of Maryland, Media Relations press release
Computer Rage - "How Not To Destroy Your New High-Tech Gifts", December 2004
Kent
Norman featured in a Laboratory
for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes press release
Computer Rage II on DVD, September 2004
Allison Druin and Ben Bederson explain email and instant messaging to children Maryland Public Television, November 2004
Ben Shneiderman’s work on photo
annotation described
Wired
Magazine, October 2004
Review of Ben Shneiderman’s
Leonardo's Laptop
IEEE-USA: Today’s Engineer, October 2004
Business Week Online mentions Ben Shneiderman in relation to personal
medical devices
July 2004
Allison Druin was mentioned in Information Outlook on the Interaction Design and Children Conference
June 2004
Allison Druin participated in a live online discussion about the Interaction Design and Children Conference
WashingtonPost.com, June
2004
Allison Druin’s research mentioned
Maryland Research, Spring 2004
Allison Druin was highlighted in Usability News on Interaction
Design and Children
May 2004
Allison Druin and Ben Bederson highlighted
Baltimore Sun, High Tech Education section, May 2004
Ben Shneiderman addresses increased attention to usability
Federal
Computer Week, April 2004
Ben Bederson weighs in on internet social networking tool Orkut
TechWeb, April 2004
Review of Ben Shneiderman’s Leonardo’s Laptop
Library Quarterly, April 2004
Ben Bederson's work
with novel interfaces profiled
The
Gazette, March 2004
DateLens, a unique
calendar interface developed by Ben Bederson, profiled
PDAStreet.com profiles DateLens, January 2004
Ben Bederson quoted in an article that mentions NoteLens and the
HCIL
The New York Times, Now
Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites, January 2004
Ben Shneiderman was
a guest on a Government Computer News
online forum
December 2003
A Baltimore Sun article on electronic voting cites a study
conducted by Ben Bederson
December 2003
London's Independent raves about Treemap and PhotoMesa
October 2003
Allison Druin was
nominated by President Bush to be a member of the
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
September 2003
The Indian
Express quotes Doug Oard in an
article about a DARPA program to develop rapidly deployable machine translation tools
July 2003
Allison Druin is featured in School Library Journal
June 2003
Ben Sheiderman quoted in the Baltimore Sun and in Technology Review
April 2003
Ben Bederson quoted in the The Washington Post
March 2003
Ben Bederson on new voting system technologies
Baltimore Sun, "Two
study intricacies of voting machines", December 2002
Other ICDL Press Coverage
University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced
Computer Studies' (UMIACS) complete list of ICDL
Media Coverage
Ben Shneiderman talks with Ubiquity about his
new book, Leonardo's Laptop
The magazine of the Association for Computing
Machinery's interview with Dr. Shneiderman, October 2002
ComputerSweden reports on Ben Bederson's zooming interface
An article about a zoom calendar, DateLens, September 2002
Ben Bederson highlighted at the Microsoft
Research Faculty Summit
Bederson's DateLens demonstrated during Bill Gates' Keynote
Speech, July 2002.
The
Internet Archive partners with the University of Maryland to build an Internet
Library
An executive
summary by the Internet Archive on the International Children's Digital
Library project, May 2002
Ben Bederson's Op-ed on Electronic Voting
Washingtonpost.com, "Debugging
Maryland Balloting", May 2002
Ben
Shneiderman talks about "A Visual Rather Than Verbal Future"
An article discussing why "Ben Shneiderman doesn't think speech will ever become the
main way people communicate with computers", May 2002
Washingtonpost.com interview with Ben Shneiderman, Ben Bederson,
and Allison Druin
HCIL Faculty members answer questions about their
research studies and projects during a live
online terview, May 2002.
Outlook Online report on Allison Druin and the kids research team
An article about a visit by CASE News Media journalists as they take a "glimpse into the
future of robotics and artificial intelligence", May 2002.
The New York Times reports on the collaborative oral history archives project
An article on indexing 50,000 memories of the Holocaust. Doug Oard is one of the principal
investigators at the University of Maryland who is working on the
Multilingual Access to Large spoken ArCHives (MALACH) project. The project's purpose is to dramatically
improve access to large multilingual collections of recorded speech in oral history archives, October
2001
The University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research features Shneiderman-Hendler Debate on the Future of the
Web
Ben Shneiderman and James Hendler debate the future of the web as the closing keynote presentation at the American Society for Information Science and
Technology's 2001 Annual Meeting, November 2001
Ben Shneiderman testifies before Congress regarding a National ID System
US Public Policy Committee of the Association for
Computing Machinery (USACM) documents Ben Shneiderman's testimony to the House Committee on Government Reform, November 2001
Converge Magazine.com features Allison Druin
An article on shapers of our future, those who deserve special recognition for their work
in education and technology
and their positive impact on the lives of
others by Susan D. Karnovsky, August 2001
Sun Microsystems' report on PhotoMesa
An article on Ben Bederson's zoomable image browser PhotoMesa by Jon Byous,
August 1, 2001
Washington Post article on AnthroTronix
An article about the AnthroTronix project by
Rob Terry, July 24, 2001
ComputerWorld article on Treemap
An article about the Treemap project by Sami
Lais, July 2, 2001
Baltimore Business Journal article on MusicBlocks
An article on Prof. Allison Druin's project on the award-winning toy MusicBlocks, June
28, 2001
Washington Post article about the kids team at HCIL
An article about Prof. Allison Druin's work with her kids
team by Hope Katz Gibbs, June 22, 2001
ComputerWorld article on TimeSearcher
An article describing Harry Hochheiser's research with time-series data by Sami
Lais, June 4, 2001
Discover Magazine article about children, computers and Storytelling Robots
An article that talks about StoryRooms and Robotic Storytelling by Paul Wallich, December 2000
NPR coverage about children and technology (featured in the morning edition of NPR)
A radio clip by Allison Druin about her work with children and why its important, November 27, 2000
New Scientist magazine article about Jazz, KidPad, and Fisheye Menus
An article summarizing the uses of Jazz, KidPad and Fisheye Menus by Anil Ananthaswamy, August 12, 2000
ComputerWorld
article about Zoomable User Interfaces
An article describing Jazz and Fisheye Menus by Sami
Lais, June 26, 2000
Children's
technologies in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
An article about Prof. Allison Druin's work on children's technologies by
Karen MacPherson, June 20, 2000
Interview
with Prof. Ben Bederson
By Sun Microsystems
on their Java
web site about Ben's work
on Zoomable User Interfaces, and Single Display Groupware by Jon Byous,
September 23, 1999.
Once
upon a time there was a hedgehog...
An article in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter about the work of Ben Bederson
and Allison Druin with children by Kerstin Lundell, August 26, 1999.
Ben
Shneiderman in University of Maryland, CMPS Continuum
Spring/Summer
1999 article, "Human Computer Interaction Lab: Making Computers Work Well
for People", page 4.
Ben
Shneiderman in Scientific American
A
profile of Ben Shneiderman appeared in the March
1999 issue of Scientific American summarizing some of his recent accomplishments
and ideas.
Humans
Unite!
Beardsley, Tim, in Profile, Scientific American, (March 1999), p.35.
HCIL
appeared on PBS
On Thursday,
January 28, 1999, at 8pm, MPT presented a television segment entitled Maryland
State of Mind. It
highlights HCIL Professor Allison Druin's work with children.
Article
in the Baltimore Sun
An article about the work of HCIL Professors Allison Druin and Ben Bederson about
their work with children appeared
in the Baltimore Sun on Monday, December 21, 1998.
The Chapel Hill Herald, Expert to discuss human-computer interactions, (December 2, 1998), page 9.
Quan, Margaret, Group to draw e-book standards, Electronic Engineering Times, (October 12, 1998), Page 4.
Beardsley, Tim, Getting Real?, Scientific American, (July 1998), page 36.
New York Times, Circuits, Do Computers Have to be Hard to Use?, (May 28,1998), page E1.
The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Online News, (April 24, 1998).
White, Michael, Expert Urges Easy-To-Use Computers, Washington Post Archives, (April 22, 1998).
Shook, Carrie, Banks that chat, and other irrelevancies, Forbes, (April 20, 1998), p. 224.
Business Wire, The Hal 9000 is a Bad Idea, (March 9, 1998).
Chapman, Gary, Viewpoints: We Are All Microsoft's Guinea Pigs, Newsday (Nassau Edition) Long Island, NY, (Feb. 23, 1998).
Sutter, Rita, Ben Shneiderman: Giving Computer Interaction Conflicts the Boot, Outlook, January 27, 1998, page 8.
Meisol,Patricia, The Virtual Parent, The Sun, (January 11, 1998), page 4H.
Corcoran, Elizabeth, Top Researchers on Five Questions Whose Answers Could Change Our Lives, Business, The Washington Post, H1, December 21, 1997.
Weise, Elizabeth, The Complex Art of Making Technology Simple, Tech Extra, USA Today, November 12, 1997.
Corcoran, Elizabeth, In Pursuit of the Display Model, Business, The Washington Post, C1, October 22, 1997.
Bank, David, From the Archives - Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, http://interactive.wsj.com/archive, New Web Browsers Play Down TV-Style 'Netcasting' Approach, September 30, 1997.
Gibbs,W. Wayt, Taking Computers to Task, Scientific American, (July 1997), page 88.
Chandrasedaran, Rajiv, Across-the-Board Humanity Lesson, (May 4, 1997), page 1.
Outlook, Shneiderman to Receive Joseph Rigo Award, Vol. 11, No. 6 September 24, 1996.
Gillespie, Greg, What's hot? The NC is no PC but it could be the wave of the future in computing, the Institute (March 1996), Vol 20, no. 3, pages1 and 4.
Cohen, Charles, Opening Doors to Technology Transfer, Small Business News Washington, (February 1996), page 24.
Schwartz, John, Either Way, Humans Are Ahead in Chess Duel, The Washington Post (February 13, 1996), A1 & A12.
OTL Showcases UMCP Research, Maryland Imagination, published by the UM Office of Technology Liaison, (Fall 1995) A Closer Look section, page 5, (photo only of Catherine Plaisant and lab)
Scientific American, (October 1995).
Wilson,David, Interface, Chronicle of Higher Education, (October 13, 1995), A23 & A28.
Chapman, Gary, Is the personal computer becoming passe?, Boston Globe (October 1, 1995), Innovation section.
IEEE Software, Debating WIMP at Rocky Mountain CHI, (September 1995), page101.
Houston, Patrick, The Consequences of Our Work, PC Week (August 28, 1995), page A7.
Latham, Lou, Primacy of the Screen, Matter (Gartner Group Quarterly) (Summer, 1995).
Snider, Mike, Embedded Electronics, USA Today (June 6, 1995).
Corcoran, Elizabeth, Warm and Fuzzy Logic, The Washington Post, (June 1, 1995), page C2.
Henry, Jacqueline, Asocial Interface?, Man/Machine, OEM Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 17, May 1995.
Outlook, 1994 Invention of the Year Award Winners Announced, Vol. 9, No. 30 (May 1, 1995), p. 2.
Maryland Imagination, University Spinoff Poised to Release First Product (Spring 1995) Profile, page 1.
Kyle, Jim, Ya Gotta Have an Image, Windows Tech Journal, February 1995, p. 13.
Special Report, Reach Out and Touch, Education Week, (January 11, 1995).
Dillon, Andrew, Book Review, Library and Information Science Research, Vol. 16, Number 3, 1994, p. 269.
Jenks, Andrew, U. of Md.s Research Stride, Washington Technology (December 22, 1994).
Potts, Mark, Interface-LIfts: Not Just For Looks, The Washington Post, (October 12, 1994, Business Section), and International Herald Tribune (October 14, 1994)
Sugarman, Joe, Wired, College Park Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 1, Fall 1994, p.21.
Maryland Imagination, Profile, Winsurfer Allows Visualization & Manipulation of Hard Disk, Summer 1994, p1.
Selden, Steve, What works in college teaching: A visit to the virtual reality of the future classroom - By JOVE, It's EVE, Teaching and Learning News, University of Maryland Center for Teaching Excellence, Vol. 3, No. 2, (Spring 1994).
Levin, Carol and Canter, Sheryl, Interface Pioneers March Forward, PC Magazine, Trends, Vol. 13 No. 5., (March 15, 1994).
Achenbach, Joel, Its a machine age out there, The Washington Post (March 4, 1994), Style section.
Abrams, Doug, Ben Shneiderman puts a friendlier face on computers, Washington Business Journal, week of February 4-10, 1994, p.20.
Olsen, Florence, Prof drives computers in new dimensions, Government Computer News, (January 24, 1994), page 18.
Dresser, Michael, Helping define user friendly, Baltimore Sun, (November 27, 1993), pps. 13C - 15C.
Sheppard, Sylvia and Murphy, Elizabeth D.,Celebrating a decade of joyful innovation: HCIL's 10th Annual Symposium and Open House, ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Vol. 25, No. 4 (October 1993), pp. 29-31.
Scearce, Kimberly, Where Interplay meets Interface, Washington Technology, Vol. 8, No. 4 (May 20, 1993), pp. 37-38.
Booker, Ellis, A new method of seeing?, Computerworld (April 5, 1993), p.38.
Hammer, Signe, The human face of computing, MetLife Perspectives on Technology: A Journal for Senior Management, Vol. 5, Nos. 1 & 2 (Fall 1992), pp. 3-6.
