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.
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.
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.
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