Stuart Card
{{short description|American computer researcher}}
Stuart K. Card (born December 21, 1943) is an American researcher and retired senior research fellow at Xerox PARC. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction.[http://www.computerhistory.org/events/bio/Stuart,Card Stuart Card] at Computer History Museum website computerhistory.org. Accessed 02.12.2021.{{cite web|title=Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/stuart-k-card|website=The Franklin Institute|date=15 January 2014 |access-date=18 October 2015}} With Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. Robertson and others he invented a number of information visualization techniques.{{Cite web|url=https://research.tableau.com/user/jock-mackinlay|title=Jock Mackinlay {{!}} Tableau Research|website=research.tableau.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-31}} He holds numerous patents in user interfaces and visual analysis.{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Jock+Douglas+MacKinlay|title=Google Patents|website=patents.google.com|access-date=2017-12-31}}
Biography
Card received a B.A. in physics from Oberlin College in 1966, and a Ph.D. in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
He started working as an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University in the late 1960s.[http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm Stuart Card] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070209223029/http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm |date=2007-02-09 }} at PARC, 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2008. Since 1974 he had been working at PARC and 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 the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCHI, and became Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2001 he was elected to the CHI Academy. In 2007, he was elected a member of 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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012171822/http://fi.edu/winners/2007/card_stuart.faw?winner_id=4403 |date=2007-10-12 }}, Franklin Laureate Database. Retrieved 1 July 2008. 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 the Fitts's law characterization of the computer mouse and was a major factor leading to the mouse's commercial introduction by Xerox, most notably in the Alto and Star projects, some of the very earliest GUI systems employing a desktop metaphor.{{cite web|title=ACM CHI Academy|url=http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/awards-2001.html#stuart-k-card|website=SIGCHI|publisher=SIG CHI|access-date=18 October 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907183121/http://www.sigchi.org/about/awards/awards-2001.html/#stuart-k-card|archive-date=7 September 2015}}
The 1983 book The Psychology of Human–Computer Interaction, which he co-wrote with Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, became seminal work in the HCI field. Further research into the theoretical characterizations of human–machine interaction led to developments including "the Model Human Processor, the GOMS theory of user interaction, information foraging theory, 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. With Jock D. Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209223029/http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/uir/people/stuart/stuart.htm Stuart Card] at PARC.
- [http://sigchi.org/documents/awards/ SIGCHI Awards]
- [https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/218989 Oral history interview with Stuart Card (2020)]. [https://cse.umn.edu/cbi Charles Babbage Institute]. Retrieved from the [https://conservancy.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy].
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Category:2000 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Human–computer interaction researchers
Category:Data and information visualization experts
Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Category:Scientists at PARC (company)
Category:The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science laureates