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Stuart Card is a Xerox Research Fellow and the manager of the User Interface
Research group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. His 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
a dozen Xerox products, including contributions to the Xerox Star, Xerox
AI Systems, Visual Recall, PaperWorks, TabWorks, and Visual Recall as
well as the founding of three software companies, Inxight Software, Outride,
and Content Guard. Card is a co-author of the book The Psychology of Human-Computer
Interaction, a co-editor of the book, Human Performance Models for Computer-Aided
Engineering, and has served on many editorial boards. He received his
A.B. in Physics from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. in Psychology from
Carnegie Mellon University, where he pursued an interdisciplinary program
in psychology, artificial intelligence, and computer science. He has been
an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University. His most recent book,
Readings in Information Visualization, co-written and edited with Jock
Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman, was published last year. He is currently
concentrating with Peter Pirolli on a theory of information use and working
on new user interfaces and services for the Internet. Card is an ACM Fellow,
a member of the ACM CHI Academy for human-computer interaction, and the
first recipient of the CHI Achievement Award.
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