- George Furnas
Prof. George W. Furnas is a professor and Associate Dean for Academic Strategy at the School of Information of the
University of Michigan . Prior to his position at the University of Michigan, Furnas worked atBell Labs for 15 years where he was a distinguished member of technical staff, and then became Director of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media research. During his time atBell Labs he earned the moniker "Fisheye Furnas" while working with fisheye visualizations.A pioneer of
Latent semantic analysis , Professor Furnas is also considered a pioneer in the concept of MoRAS (Mosaic of Responsive Adaptive Systems).Furnas was elected into the
CHI Academy , an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, in 2004 for his work in the field.The body of Furnas' research, and its primacy in the field, is aptly précised by the delineation of his work in his
SIGCHI bio:A principal focus of his research is in advanced information access and visualization. His early role in the analysis of the "Vocabulary Disagreement" problem lead to his co-invention of Latent Semantic Analysis for indexing and text processing. His classic "Generalized Fisheye Views" paper inspired a sea of focus+context research in information visualization. George's BITPICT graphical rewrite system is well known novel contribution to diagrammatic reasoning, visual languages and visual programming communities. George was also an early researcher in the areas of collaborative filtering,and graph visualization. His "Space-Scale Diagrams in the Pad++ Zoomable User Interface" advanced the analysis of zoomable user interfaces, and View Navigation theory has helped motivate much subsequent research in Information Scent. Recently he has been working on consolidating theories of design and use at multiple levels of aggregation. [http://www.sigchi.org/documents/awards/awards-2004.html#georgefurnas]
External links
* [http://www.si.umich.edu/~furnas/ Home Page]
* [http://si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=41 SI Faculty Profile]
* [http://si.umich.edu/ University of Michigan School of Information]
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