Barbara P. Buttenfield is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She teaches courses in Geographic Information Science, Computer Cartography, and Geographic Information Design.  Her research interests focus on data delivery on the Internet, visualization tools for environmental modeling, map generalization, and interface usability testing.  She was an original Co-Principal Investigator for the NSF-funded National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), leading research initiatives on "Multiple Representations", "Formalizing Cartographic Knowledge", and "Visualizing Spatial Data Quality".  She led the User Interface Evaluation team for the first four years of the Alexandria Digital Library Project, in collaboration with the University of California - Santa Barbara.  She spent a one-year research sabbatical in residence at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Mapping Division in Reston, Virginia (1993-1994).   Dr. Buttenfield is a Past President of the American Cartographic Association, and a fellow of  the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM).  She was a member of the National Research Council's Mapping Science Committee 1992-1998.  She serves on the Editorial Boards of Computers Environment and Urban Systems, Cartography and GIS, Transactions in GIS, and Cartographic Perspectives.

References:

Buttenfield, B.P. and Tsou, M. Distributing an Internet-Based GIS to Remote College Classrooms.  Proceedings, ESRI User conference, San Diego, California, July 1999 (forthcoming).

Reitsma, R. and Buttenfield, B. P. Inductive Explorations of Information Space Geography.  Proceedings, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 1999 (forthcoming).

Buttenfield, B. P. and Reitsma, R. Loglinear and Multidimensional Scaling Models of Digital Library Navigation.  International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (under review).

Buttenfield B.P. and McLafferty, S. Spatial Data in the Classroom: A Vision for Education.  Proceedings, Conference on The Future of Spatial Data And Society.  Washington, DC:   National Academy of Sciences, Mapping Science Committee, and Federal Geographic Data Committee, 24-25 April, 1996.
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Buttenfield, B.P.  Visualization in Geographic Education.  Proceedings First Annual Conference on Education and GIS, sponsored by National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society, 24-27 January, 1994, Washington DC.