Thomas K. Landauer

Author: Thomas K. Landauer

Dr. Thomas K. Landauer (born April 25, 1932)[1] is a professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of Colorado.
He was one of the pioneers of Latent semantic analysis, and in 1995 published a controversial analysis of the productivity paradox of information technology.

He is currently a Vice President at Pearson Education. He is also Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of Colorado. Previously he was the manager of an information science and human-computer interaction research group at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore.

Publications

Publication period start: 1983
Number of co-authors: 54

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
George W. Furnas
5
Louis M. Gomez
6
Susan Dumais
6

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
W. Bruce Croft
124
John M. Carroll
209
Ben Shneiderman
225

Publications

Nielsen, Jakob, Landauer, Thomas K. (1993): A Mathematical Model of the Finding of Usability Problems. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik, White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 206-213. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/169059/p206-nielsen/p206-nielsen.pdf

Olson, Judith S., Card, Stuart K., Landauer, Thomas K., Olson, Gary M., Malone, Thomas W., Leggett, John (1993): Computer-Supported Co-Operative Work: Research Issues for the 90s. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 12 (2) pp. 115-129.

Czaja, Sara J., Guerrier, Jose H., Nair, Sankaran N., Landauer, Thomas K. (1993): Computer Communication as an Aid to Independence for Older Adults. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 12 (4) pp. 197-207.

Egan, Dennis E., Lesk, Michael E., Ketchum, R. Daniel, Lochbaum, Carol C., Remde, Joel R., Littman, Michael, Landauer, Thomas K. (1991): Hypertext for the Electronic Library? CORE Sample Results. In: Walker, Jan (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 91 Conference December 15-18, 1991, San Antonio, Texas. pp. 299-312. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/hypertext/122974/p299-egan/p299-egan.pdf

Landauer, Thomas K., Kraut, Robert E. (1990): CHI in the Applied Research Divisions at Bellcore. In: Carrasco, Jane, Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference , 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 285-286.

Deerwester, Scott C., Dumais, Susan, Landauer, Thomas K., Furnas, George W., Harshman, Richard A. (1990): Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41 (6) pp. 391-407.

Gomez, Louis M., Lochbaum, Carol C., Landauer, Thomas K. (1990): All the right words: Finding what you want as a function of richness of indexing vocabular. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 41 (8) pp. 547-559.

Egan, Dennis E., Remde, Joel R., Landauer, Thomas K., Lochbaum, Carol C., Gomez, Louis M. (1989): Behavioral Evaluation and Analysis of a Hypertext Browser. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 205-210.

Wolf, Catherine G., Carroll, John M., Landauer, Thomas K., John, Bonnie E., Whiteside, John (1989): The Role of Laboratory Experiments in HCI: Help, Hindrance, or Ho-Hum?. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 265-268.

Egan, Dennis E., Remde, Joel R., Gomez, Louis M., Landauer, Thomas K., Eberhardt, Jennifer, Lochbaum, Carol C. (1989): Formative Design-Evaluation of SuperBook. In ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 7 (1) pp. 30-57.

Borgman, Christine L., Belkin, Nicholas J., Croft, W. Bruce, Lesk, Michael E., Landauer, Thomas K. (1988): Retrieval Systems for the Information Seeker: Can the Role of the Intermediary be Automate. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 51-53.

Dumais, Susan, Furnas, George W., Landauer, Thomas K., Deerwester, Scott, Harshman, Richard (1988): Using Latent Semantic Analysis to Improve Access to Textual Information. In: Soloway, Elliot, Frye, Douglas, Sheppard, Sylvia B. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 88 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 15-19, 1988, Washington, DC, USA. pp. 281-285.

Landauer, Thomas K. (1988): An Estimate of How Much People Remember, Not of Underlying Cognitive Capacities. In Cognitive Science, 12 (2) pp. 293-297.

Remde, Joel R., Gomez, Louis M., Landauer, Thomas K. (1987): SuperBook: An Automatic Tool for Information Exploration - Hypertext?. In: Weiss, Stephen, Schwartz, Mayer (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 87 Conference November 13-15, 1987, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. pp. 175-188.

Landauer, Thomas K. (1987): Psychology as a mother of invention. In: Graphics Interface 87 (CHI+GI 87) April 5-9, 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 333-335.

Furnas, George W., Landauer, Thomas K., Gomez, Louis M., Dumais, Susan (1987): The Vocabulary Problem in Human-System Communication. In Communications of the ACM, 30 (11) pp. 964-971.

Thomas, John C., Brown, John Seely, Buxton, Bill, Curtis, Bill, Landauer, Thomas K., Malone, Thomas W., Shneiderman, Ben (1986): Human Computer Interaction in the Year 2000. In: Mantei, Marilyn, Orbeton, Peter (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 86 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 13-17, 1986, Boston, Massachusetts. pp. 253-255.

Landauer, Thomas K. (1986): How Much do People Remember? Some Estimates of the Quantity of Learned Information in Long. In Cognitive Science, 10 (4) pp. 477-493.

Landauer, Thomas K., Gould, John D., Anderson, John R., Barnard, Philip J. (1985): Psychological Research Methods in the Human Use of Computers. In: Borman, Lorraine, Curtis, Bill (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. pp. 41-45.

Landauer, Thomas K., Nachbar, D. W. (1985): Selection from Alphabetic and Numeric Menu Trees Using a Touch Screen: Breadth, Depth, and. In: Borman, Lorraine, Curtis, Bill (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. pp. 73-78.

Jones, William P., Landauer, Thomas K. (1985): Context and Self-Selection Effects in Name Learning. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 4 (1) pp. 3-17.

Dumais, Susan, Landauer, Thomas K. (1983): Using Examples to Describe Categories. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 112-115.

Landauer, Thomas K., Galotti, Kathleen M., Hartwell, S. (1983): Natural Command Names and Initial Learning: A Study of Text-Editing Terms. In Communications of the ACM, 26 (7) pp. 495-503.

Furnas, George W., Gomez, Louis M., Landauer, Thomas K., Dumais, Susan (1982): Statistical Semantics: How Can a Computer Use What People Name Things to Guess What Things. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 251-253.

Furnas, George W., Deerwester, Scott, Dumais, Susan, Landauer, Thomas K., Harshman, Richard A., Streeter, Lynn A., Lochbaum, Karen E. (1988): Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Struct. In: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval , 1988, . pp. 465-480.

Root, Robert W., Grantham, Charles, Landauer, Thomas K., Mackay, Wendy E., McNinch, Robert (1988): Telecommunications in the 1990s: Human Factors Issues for the Information Age. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting , 1988, . pp. 252-253.

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