Stuart Card ’66 is a senior research fellow at the 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.
Card is currently developing a supporting science of human-information interaction and visual-semantic prototypes to aid sensemaking.
His user interface 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. 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.
Card is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the first recipient of the ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) Lifetime Achievement Award, the first member of the ACM CHI Academy and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2007 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science for fundamental contributions to the fields of human-computer interaction and information visualization.
He is a co-author of the book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, and his most recent book, Readings in Information Visualization, was published in 1999. He has been an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University.
Card earned a BA degree in physics at Oberlin College and a PhD degree in psychology at Carnegie Mellon.
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