| 2010 | DIAGRAMS | Relating Two Image-Based Diagrammatic Reasoning Architectures. | Michael Anderson, George W. Furnas |
| 2009 | CHI | Sensemaking workshop CHI 2009. | Daniel M. Russell, Peter Pirolli, George W. Furnas, Stuart K. Card, Mark Stefik |
| 2008 | CHI | Sensemaking. | Daniel M. Russell, George W. Furnas, Mark Stefik, Stuart K. Card, Peter Pirolli |
| 2006 | CHI | A fisheye follow-up: further reflections on focus + context. | George W. Furnas |
| 2006 | CHI | Why do tagging systems work? | George W. Furnas, Caterina Fake, Luis von Ahn, Joshua Schachter, Scott A. Golder, Kevin Fox, Marc Davis, Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman |
| 2005 | CHI | Making sense of sensemaking. | George W. Furnas, Daniel M. Russell |
| 2005 | CHI | Sources of structure in sensemaking. | Yan Qu, George W. Furnas |
| 2003 | CHI | Using pixel rewrites for shape-rich interaction. | George W. Furnas, Yan Qu |
| 2003 | CHI | The effectiveness of multiscale collaboration in virtual environments. | Xiaolong Zhang, George W. Furnas |
| 2001 | CHI | Richer graphical interaction using interactive pixel rewrite systems. | George W. Furnas, Yan Qu, Sanjeev Shrivastava, Gregory Peters |
| 2000 | DIAGRAMS | The Use of Intermediat Graphical Constructions in Problem Solving with Dynamic, Pixel-Level Diagrams. | George W. Furnas, Yan Qu, Sanjeev Shrivastava, Gregory Peters |
| 2000 | UIST | Illusions of infinity: feedback for infinite worlds. | George W. Furnas, Xiaolong Zhang |
| 1998 | UIST | MuSE: A Multiscale Editor. | George W. Furnas, Xiaolong Zhang |
| 1998 | UIST | Critical Zones in Desert Fog: Aids to Multiscale Navigation. | Susanne Jul, George W. Furnas |
| 1997 | CHI | Effective View Navigation. | George W. Furnas |
| 1997 | CHI | Navigation in Electronic Worlds. | George W. Furnas, Susanne Jul |
| 1997 | CHI | HCI at the University of Michigan's School of Information. | Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson, George W. Furnas, Elliot Soloway, Daniel E. Atkins |
| 1995 | CHI | Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces. | George W. Furnas, Benjamin B. Bederson |
| 1995 | CHI | Recommending and Evaluating Choices in a Virtual Community of Use. | William C. Hill, Larry Stead, Mark Rosenstein, George W. Furnas |
| 1994 | CHI | Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure. | George W. Furnas, Jeff Zacks |
| 1994 | CHI | Multitrees: enriching and reusing hierarchical structure. | George W. Furnas, Jeff Zacks |
| 1992 | CSCW | Supporting Informal Communication via Ephemeral Interest Groups. | Laurence Brothers, James D. Hollan, Jakob Neilsen, Scott Stornetta, Steven P. Abney, George W. Furnas, Michael L. Littman |
| 1991 | CHI | New graphical reasoning models for understanding graphical interfaces. | George W. Furnas |
| 1988 | CHI | Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information. | Susan T. Dumais, George W. Furnas, Thomas K. Landauer, Scott C. Deerwester, Richard A. Harshman |
| 1988 | SIGIR | Information Retrieval using a Singular Value Decomposition Model of Latent Semantic Structure. | George W. Furnas, Scott C. Deerwester, Susan T. Dumais, Thomas K. Landauer, Richard A. Harshman, Lynn A. Streeter, Karen E. Lochbaum |
| 1986 | CHI | Generalized fisheye views. | George W. Furnas |
| 1985 | CHI | Experience with an adaptive indexing scheme. | George W. Furnas |
| 1982 | CHI | Statistical semantics: How can a computer use what people name things to guess what things people mean when they name things? | George W. Furnas, Louis M. Gomez, Thomas K. Landauer, Susan T. Dumais |