Stuart Card

Stuart K. Card(born December 21, 1943) is an American researcher and retired senior research fellow atXerox PARC.He is considered to be one of the pioneers of applyinghuman factorsinhuman–computer interaction.WithJock D. Mackinlay,George G. Robertsonand others he invented a number ofinformation visualizationtechniques.He holds numerous patents in user interfaces and visual analysis.

Biography

Card received aB.A.inphysicsfromOberlin Collegein 1966, and a Ph.D. inpsychologyfromCarnegie Mellon University.

He started working as an adjunct faculty member atStanford Universityin the late 1960s.Since 1974 he had been working atPARCand was the Area Manager of the User Interface Research group. He retired from PARC in 2010 but has been a consulting professor in Stanford University's Computer Science department.

Card received several awards. In 2000 he was awarded the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from theAssociation for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI, and became Fellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery.In 2001 he was elected to theCHI Academy.In 2007, he was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering,and was awarded TheFranklin Institute'sBower Awardand Prize for Achievement in Science.On May 26, 2008, Card was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by Oberlin College.

Work

Stuart Card's study of input devices led to theFitts's lawcharacterization of thecomputer mouseand was a major factor leading to the mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox, most notably in theAltoandStarprojects, some of the very earliestGUIsystems employing adesktop metaphor.

The 1983 bookThe Psychology of Human–Computer Interaction,which he co-wrote withThomas P. MoranandAllen Newell,became seminal work in the HCI field. Further research into the theoretical characterizations ofhuman–machine interactionled to developments including "theModel Human Processor,the GOMS theory of user interaction,information foragingtheory, and statistical descriptions of Internet use ".In the new millennium his research has been focusing on developing a "supporting science of human–information interaction and visual-semantic prototypes to aid sense making".

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.IEEE 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.WithJock D. MackinlayandBen Shneiderman.

External links

• Stuart Cardat PARC.
• SIGCHI Awards
• Oral history interview with Stuart Card (2020).Charles Babbage Institute.Retrieved from theUniversity of Minnesota Digital Conservancy.