Stuart Card
American 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. With Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. Robertson and others he invented a number of information visualization techniques. He holds numerous patents in user interfaces and visual analysis.
Biography
Card received a B.A. in physics from Oberlin College in 1966.
Card completed his Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 under the supervision of Allen Newell at Carnegie Mellon University. His doctoral work brought together experimental psychology, information-processing theory, and the emerging study of human interaction with computers. In his dissertation, Studies in the Psychology of Computer Text Editing Systems, Card treated computer text editing as a rigorous object of scientific analysis, modeling user behavior in terms of goals, operators, methods, and selection rules. This work helped establish the conceptual foundations of modern human-computer interaction and foreshadowed the influential research Card would later carry out at Xerox PARC later in his career.
After his Ph.D., he started working as an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University in the late 1960s. Since 1974 he had been working at PARC and was the Area Manager of the User Interface Research group.
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