Stuart Card

Stuart K. Card is an American researcher. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC and one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction.

Biography

Card graduated in 1966 with a A.B. in Physics from the Oberlin College. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, where he pursued an interdisciplinary program in psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University. [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm Stuart Card] at PARC, 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2008.] He has been working at PARC since 1974, and is now the Area Manager of the User Interface Research, or UIR, section of PARC.

In 2000, Card became the second person to receive the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI, the first having been Douglas Engelbart. In 2000 he was also inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2001 he was one of the first to be elected to the CHI Academy. In 2007, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and was awarded The Franklin Institute's Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. [ [http://www.fi.edu/winners/2007/card_stuart.faw?winner_id=4403 Stuart K. Card] , Franklin Laureate Database. Retrieved 1 July 2008.] On May 26, 2008, Card was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by Oberlin College.

Work

Card is currently developing a supporting science of human–information interaction and visual-semantic prototypes to aid sensemaking.

Card has been one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction. The 1983 book "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction", which he co-wrote with Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, became a very influential book in the field, partly for introducing the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules (GOMS) framework.

His study of input devices led to the Fitts's Law characterization of the mouse and was a major factor leading to the mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox. His group has developed theoretical characterizations of human–machine interaction, including the Model Human Processor, the GOMS theory of user interaction, information foraging theory, and statistical descriptions of Internet use. These theories have been put to use in new paradigms of human–machine interaction including the Rooms workspace manager, papertronic systems, and the Information Visualizer.

In the 1980s he became well-known for being one of the first information visualization researchers.

Publications

Card has written three books and more than 70 papers, and holds 22 patents.
* 1983. "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction". With Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell.
* 1990. "Human Performance Models for Computer-Aided Engineering". Edited with J.I. Elkind, J. Hochberg and B.M. Heuy. San Diego, CA : Academic Press.
* 1996. I"EEE Symposium on Information Visualization ’96 : proceedings, October 28-29, 1996, San Francisco, California". Edited with Stephen G. Eick and Nahum Gershon. Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society.
* 1999. "Readings in information visualization : using vision to think". With Jock D. Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman.

References

External links

* [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm Stuart Card] at PARC.
* [http://sigchi.org/documents/awards/ SIGCHI Awards]