Benjamin B. Bederson is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is also Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Prior to UM he was an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and worked in the Interactive Media and Computer Graphics Research Group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Dr. Bederson received his Ph. D. in Computer Vision and Robotics from New York University. He has published extensively, and is well known for the widely used software he developed including the Pad++, Jazz and Piccolo toolkits for Zoomable User Interfaces. 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.

"Many readers will, I am sure, gain immense value from it, as it introduces some novel interface design concepts." --Rob Scovell - First Monday

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Database Discovery with Dynamic QueriesChapter 2. Seeing the World Through Image LibrariesChapter 3. Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces Chapter 4. The World's Information in Digital Libraries Chapter 5. Making Sense of the World Wide Web Chapter 6. Understanding Hierarchical Data Chapter 7. Innovating the Interaction Chapter 8. Theories for Understanding Information Visualization Appendix A: Video ReportsAppendix B: Project PagesAppendix C: Software for DownloadingAppendix D: Full Tech Report IndexAuthor IndexKey Terms Index

Benjamin B. Bederson is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is also Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Prior to UM he was an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and worked in the Interactive Media and Computer Graphics Research Group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Dr. Bederson received his Ph. D. in Computer Vision and Robotics from New York University. He has published extensively, and is well known for the widely used software he developed including the Pad++, Jazz and Piccolo toolkits for Zoomable User Interfaces. 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.

"Many readers will, I am sure, gain immense value from it, as it introduces some novel interface design concepts." --Rob Scovell - First Monday

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Database Discovery with Dynamic QueriesChapter 2. Seeing the World Through Image LibrariesChapter 3. Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces Chapter 4. The World's Information in Digital Libraries Chapter 5. Making Sense of the World Wide Web Chapter 6. Understanding Hierarchical Data Chapter 7. Innovating the Interaction Chapter 8. Theories for Understanding Information Visualization Appendix A: Video ReportsAppendix B: Project PagesAppendix C: Software for DownloadingAppendix D: Full Tech Report IndexAuthor IndexKey Terms Index

Benjamin B. Bederson is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he is also Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. Prior to UM he was an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, and worked in the Interactive Media and Computer Graphics Research Group at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). Dr. Bederson received his Ph. D. in Computer Vision and Robotics from New York University. He has published extensively, and is well known for the widely used software he developed including the Pad++, Jazz and Piccolo toolkits for Zoomable User Interfaces. 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.

"Many readers will, I am sure, gain immense value from it, as it introduces some novel interface design concepts." --Rob Scovell - First Monday

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Database Discovery with Dynamic QueriesChapter 2. Seeing the World Through Image LibrariesChapter 3. Preserving Context with Zoomable User Interfaces Chapter 4. The World's Information in Digital Libraries Chapter 5. Making Sense of the World Wide Web Chapter 6. Understanding Hierarchical Data Chapter 7. Innovating the Interaction Chapter 8. Theories for Understanding Information Visualization Appendix A: Video ReportsAppendix B: Project PagesAppendix C: Software for DownloadingAppendix D: Full Tech Report IndexAuthor IndexKey Terms Index