Stuart K. Card is a Senior Research Fellow and the manager of the
User Interface Research group at the
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
In addition to the
Franklin Institute's
Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2007), Card:
- received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)'s SIGCHI's first
CHI Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) and was named the first Fellow of the CHI Academy (2001);
- was named an ACM Fellow (2000) in recognition of his fundamental pioneering contributions toward creating a theory and practice of human-computer interaction that integrates computer science and psychological science;
- was named a
Fellow of the World Technology Network (2005), which focuses on the business and science of bringing important emerging technologies into reality; and
- was recently elected (2007) a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, which is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer.
* Stuart Card at his interview in 2002. (From source:
http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/StuCard)
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 studied with
Herbert Simon and
Allen Newell, two Artificial Intelligence pioneers, in an interdisciplinary program in psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. He has been an adjunct faculty member at
Stanford University. He has been working at PARC since 1974.
Card's 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. The work of his group has resulted in a dozen Xerox products as well as the contributing to the founding of three software companies,
Inxight Software,
Outride, and
Content Guard.
Cited over 1000 times, Card's book with
Tom Moran and
Allen Newell, "The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction" (1983), was the first to use "human-computer interaction" in its title. His book with
Josh Mackinlay and
Ben Shneiderman, "Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think" (1999) first used "information visualization" in its title and helped define a new field.
