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Summer Faculty Institute opens to a full house

Ben Schneiderman

4:10 p.m., June 24, 2005--It was standing-room-only as Ben Schneiderman, founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland at College Park, delivered the keynote speech at the Summer Faculty Institute’s opening session on June 20.

Schneiderman’s talk focused on the human side of technology, a key factor in designing interactive systems that promote usable and universal tools for communicating via computers and the Internet.

He also discussed encouraging students to work in teams on ambitious projects. Schneiderman said UD’s emphasis on problem-based and service learning are among the best ways to educate those who will create technology useful in education.

The founder of the Software Psychology Society, Schneiderman is credited with research that led to the development of the “hot link,” a key contribution to the usability of the web. He is the author of Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies, more than 200 articles and many books on the human aspects of computing. Visit [www.cs.umd.edu/~ben] to learn more about his work.

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