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40
Citations
25034
World Ranking
9011
National Ranking
3825

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the establishment of the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction.
  • 1999 - ACM Fellow Through his books, courses, papers, organizational, and professional contributions, Foley has had a broad and lasting impact on the computer graphics field and on ACM.
  • 1986 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to computer graphics.

Overview

James D. Foley is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their academic and professional contributions focus primarily on the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction.

Throughout their career, they have received several distinctions recognizing their work in these areas. In 1986, they were honored as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to computer graphics. Later, in 1999, they became an ACM Fellow, recognized for their impact on the computer graphics field through various outputs including books, courses, papers, organizational, and professional efforts. In 2008, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, cited for contributions to the establishment of the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction.

Their body of work includes publications across multiple venues; however, no specific recent papers, co-authors, or details about publication venues and book publications are listed in the available data. Similarly, specific main fields of study, subfields, and topics of work have not been itemized in detail.

Despite limited public data on individual publications or research topics, the awards and affiliations indicate a career focused on advancing technological frameworks in computer graphics and interactions between humans and computers.

Best Publications

  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice

    James D. Foley

  • Fundamentals of interactive computer graphics

    James D. Foley;Andries Van Dam

  • Introduction to Computer Graphics

    James D. Foley;Richard L. Phillips;John F. Hughes;Andries van Dam

  • Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics

    Richard Land;James D. Foley;Andries Van Dam

  • Computer graphics: principles and practice (2nd ed.)

    James D. Foley;Andries van Dam;Steven K. Feiner;John F. Hughes

  • The human factors of computer graphics interaction techniques

    J. D. Foley;V. L. Wallace;P. Chan

  • Evaluating a Web Lecture Intervention in a Human–Computer Interaction Course

    J.A. Day;J.D. Foley

  • The art of natural graphic man—Machine conversation

    J.D. Foley;V.L. Wallace

  • Interfaces for advanced computing

    James D. Foley

  • Visualizing the World-Wide Web with the navigational view builder

    Sougata Mukherjea;James D. Foley

  • A second generation user interface design environment: the model and the runtime architecture

    Piyawadee Sukaviriya;James D. Foley;Todd Griffith

  • Visualizing complex hypermedia networks through multiple hierarchical views

    Sougata Mukherjea;James D. Foley;Scott Hudson

  • Providing high-level control and expert assistance in the user interface presentation design

    Won Chul Kim;James D. Foley

  • Coupling application design and user interface design

    Dennis J. M. J. de Baar;James D. Foley;Kevin E. Mullet

  • Coupling a UI framework with automatic generation of context-sensitive animated help

    Piyawadee Sukaviriya;James D. Foley

  • UIDE—an intelligent user interface design environment

    James Foley;Won Chul Kim;Srdjan Kovacevic;Kevin Murray

  • Goals and objectives for user interface software

    B Betts;David Burlingame;Gerhard Fischer;Jim Foley

  • A knowledge-based user interface management system

    J. Foley;C. Gibbs;S. Kovacevic

  • Knowledgeable development environments using shared design models

    Robert Neches;Jim Foley;Pedro Szekely;Piyawadee Sukaviriya

  • Defining interfaces at a high level of abstraction

    J. Foley;Won Chul Kim;S. Kovacevic;K. Murray

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Feiner
Steven Feiner Columbia University
Scott E. Hudson
Scott E. Hudson Carnegie Mellon University
Sougata Mukherjea
Sougata Mukherjea IBM (United States)
Jock D. Mackinlay
Jock D. Mackinlay Tableau Software (United States)
Jarek Rossignac
Jarek Rossignac Georgia Institute of Technology
William Ribarsky
William Ribarsky University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Robert J. K. Jacob
Robert J. K. Jacob Tufts University
Jessica K. Hodgins
Jessica K. Hodgins Carnegie Mellon University
James D. Hollan
James D. Hollan University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth D. Mynatt
Elizabeth D. Mynatt Northeastern University

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