High Impact Research: Blending Science, Engineering & Design Ben Shneiderman [email protected]@benbendc Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction Lab Professor, Department of Computer Science Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland
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High Impact Research: Blending Science, Engineering & Design
Founding Director (1983-2000), Human-Computer Interaction LabProfessor, Department of Computer Science
Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of MarylandCollege Park, MD 20742
High Impact Research: A Vision for UMIACS
Ben Shneiderman (Chair, CS/HCI), Marshini Chetty (iSchool/HCI), Mihai Pop (CS/Computational Biology), Rance Cleaveland (CS/Software Engineering), Tudor Dumitras (ECE/Cybersecurity)
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High Impact Research: A Vision for UMIACS
Ben Shneiderman (Chair, CS/HCI), Marshini Chetty (iSchool/HCI), Mihai Pop (CS/Computational Biology), Rance Cleaveland (CS/Software Engineering), Tudor Dumitras (ECE/Cybersecurity)
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High Impact Research: A Vision for UMIACS
Ben Shneiderman (Chair, CS/HCI), Marshini Chetty (iSchool/HCI), Mihai Pop (CS/Computational Biology), Rance Cleaveland (CS/Software Engineering), Tudor Dumitras (ECE/Cybersecurity)
Metaphor
Jefferson’s Mission Statement (1804)
“object of your mission is to explore…the most direct & practicable water communication across the continent, for the purpose of commerce.” + geography, geology, astronomy, biology, meteorology + Indian languages, laws, customs, religion, agriculture, hunting & fishing
Inspira
tion
Kennedy Moon Shot Speech (1961)
“The growth of our science & education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe & environment, by new techniques of learning & mapping, … by new tools & computers for industry, medicine, home & school.”
Inspira
tion
UN Millennium Development Goals
• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger• Achieve universal primary education• Promote gender equality and empower women• Reduce child mortality• Improve maternal health• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases• Ensure environmental sustainability• Develop a global partnership for development
To be achieved by 2015
Inspira
tion
• Make solar energy economical
• Provide energy from fusion
• Develop carbon sequestration methods
• Manage the nitrogen cycle
• Provide access to clean water
• Restore and improve urban infrastructure
• Advance health informatics
• Engineer better medicines
• Reverse-engineer the brain
• Prevent nuclear terror
• Secure cyberspace
• Enhance virtual reality
• Advance personalized learning
• Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
Grand Challenges: NAE (2008)
www.engineeringchallenges.org/
Inspira
tion
Ensure everyone can have access to safe & clean water?Restore movement to those with paralysis?Fly without damaging the environment?Help people with dementia live independently for longerPrevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics?Ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food?
Longitude Prize 2014: CrowdsourcedInsp
iratio
n
Ensure everyone can have access to safe & clean water?Restore movement to those with paralysis?Fly without damaging the environment?Help people with dementia live independently for longerPrevent the rise of resistance to antibiotics?Ensure everyone has nutritious, sustainable food?
Longitude Prize 2014: CrowdsourcedInsp
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n
Science: The Endless Frontier (1945)
-Separates basic (or pure) from applied research
-Urges strong gov’t support for academic basic research: “statistically it is certain that important and highly useful discoveries will result from some fraction of the work undertaken; but the results of any one particular investigation cannot be predicted with accuracy.” - Warns: “applied research invariably drives out pure”
Vannevar Bush: FDR’s Science Advisor
The Problem
Science: The Endless Frontier (1945)
-Separates basic (or pure) from applied research
-Urges strong gov’t support for academic basic research: “statistically it is certain that important and highly useful discoveries will result from some fraction of the work undertaken; but the results of any one particular investigation cannot be predicted with accuracy.” - Warns: “applied research invariably drives out pure”
But he was wrong. These beliefs are just not true.
Vannevar Bush: FDR’s Science Advisor
The Problem
Linear Model
Basic Research
DevelopmentProduction
& operationsApplied
Research
The Problem
Linear Model
Basic Research
DevelopmentProduction
& operationsApplied
Research
Rarely works: Basic Researchers choose wrong problems Technology Transfer is a struggle
The Problem
Reverse Linear Model
Basic Research
DevelopmentProduction
& operationsApplied
Research
Successful pattern:Listen to industry problems & solve them Technology Transfer is easier
“Theory without practice cannot survive and dies as quickly as it lives.” “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.” -- Leonardo Da Vinci
Research Project: 2 parents, 3 children
Solve Problem
RefineTheory
Provide Guidance to Future
Researchers
ResearchProject
AppliedProblem
BasicTheory
Choose actionable problems: civic, business & global priorities
High Impact Research Strategies
Blend science, engineering & design
research methods
Choose actionable problems: civic, business & global priorities
High Impact Research Strategies
Science, Engineering, Design
Blend science, engineering & design
research methods
Form teamswith diverse individuals
& organizations
Choose actionable problems: civic, business & global priorities
High Impact Research Strategies
Teams: Winning Strategy
• Magic of Two (End of the Lone Genius)
• Teams: hugely effective, but difficult to run
• May take practice to gain skills• Clear goals, clear roles