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  • 2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to human-computer interaction.

Overview

George W. Furnas is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. The focus of their academic career is on human-computer interaction, for which they received the ACM Fellow award in 2011 with the citation: "For contributions to human-computer interaction."

Although detailed records of their recent publications, co-authors, and specific research topics are not listed, Furnas has contributed to the field primarily within the domain of human-computer interaction.

There is no available information about specific books authored or the publishers associated with their publications.

Their work is connected to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, a major research institution in the United States, indicating active engagement in academic research and teaching in this area.

Best Publications

  • Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis

    Scott Deerwester;Susan T. Dumais;George W. Furnas;Thomas K. Landauer

  • Generalized fisheye views

    G. W. Furnas

  • The vocabulary problem in human-system communication

    G. W. Furnas;T. K. Landauer;L. M. Gomez;S. T. Dumais

  • Recommending and evaluating choices in a virtual community of use

    Will Hill;Larry Stead;Mark Rosenstein;George Furnas

  • Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information

    S. T. Dumais;G. W. Furnas;T. K. Landauer;S. Deerwester

  • Computer information retrieval using latent semantic structure

    Scott Craig Deerwester;Susan Theresa Dumais;George William Furnas;Richard Allan Harshman

  • Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure

    George W. Furnas;Scott Deerwester;Susan T. Durnais;Thomas K. Landauer

  • Effective view navigation

    George W. Furnas

  • Space-scale diagrams: understanding multiscale interfaces

    George W. Furnas;Benjamin B. Bederson

  • Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad For Exploring Alternate Interface Physics

    Benjamin B. Bederson;James D. Hollan;Ken Perlin;Jonathan Meyer

  • SemNet: three-dimensional graphic representations of large knowledge bases

    Kim M. Fairchild;Steven E. Poltrock;George W. Furnas

  • Pictures of relevance: a geometric analysis of similarity measures

    William P. Jones;George W. Furnas

  • The FISHEYE view: a new look at structured files

    G. W. Furnas

  • Human factors and behavioral science: Statistical semantics: Analysis of the potential performance of key-word information systems

    G. W. Furnas;T. K. Landauer;L. M. Gomez;S. T. Dumais

  • Navigation in electronic worlds: a CHI 97 workshop

    Susanne Jul;George W. Furnas

  • Critical zones in desert fog: aids to multiscale navigation

    Susanne Jul;George W. Furnas

  • Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure

    George W. Furnas;Jeff Zacks

  • Indexing by latent semantic indexing

    Scott Deerwester;Susan T. Dumais;George Furnas;Thomas Landauer

  • Using latent semantic analysis to improve information retrieval

    Susan T. Dumais;George Furnas;Thomas Landauer;Scott Deerwester

  • Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure

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  • Statistical semantics: analysis of the potential performance of keyword information systems

    G W. Furnas;T K. Landauer;L M. Gomez;S T. Dumais

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan T. Dumais
Susan T. Dumais Microsoft (United States)
Thomas K. Landauer
Thomas K. Landauer University of Colorado Boulder
Wayne S. DeSarbo
Wayne S. DeSarbo Pennsylvania State University
James D. Hollan
James D. Hollan University of California, San Diego
Benjamin B. Bederson
Benjamin B. Bederson University of Maryland, College Park
Daniel M. Russell
Daniel M. Russell University of Zurich
David E. Rumelhart
David E. Rumelhart Stanford University
Jeffrey M. Zacks
Jeffrey M. Zacks Washington University in St. Louis
Michael L. Littman
Michael L. Littman Brown University
Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card Stanford University

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