Catherine Plaisant, University of Maryland

Bio Dr. Catherine Plaisant is Associate Director of Research of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. She earned a Doctorat d'Ingenieur degree in France in 1982 (similar to a Industrial Engineering PhD) and has written over 90 refereed technical publications on diverse subjects such as information visualization, digital libraries, universal access, image browsing, help, digital humanities, technology for families, or evaluation methodologies. She recently co-authored with Ben Shneiderman the 4th Edition of Designing the User Interface, one of the major books on the topic of Human-Computer Interaction. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/members/cplaisant/