b. 1943, USA · Cognitive scientist; long-time researcher at Xerox PARC
Also known as: Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card, with Thomas Moran and Allen Newell, wrote the 1983 book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, which formalised HCI as an applied science with quantitative laws and predictive models. The book introduced the Model Human Processor, a simplified information-processing architecture with separate perceptual, cognitive and motor processors and explicit cycle times, together with the GOMS (Goals, Operators, Methods, Selection rules) and Keystroke-Level Model for predicting task time.
Card spent most of his career at Xerox PARC, where he also contributed to the development of the mouse, scrolling, and other pointing-device research that fed into the modern graphical interface. His later work on information visualisation produced the foundational survey Readings in Information Visualization (1999) with Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman.
Related people: Thomas Moran, Allen Newell, Ben Shneiderman
Works cited in this book:
- The keystroke-level model for user performance time with interactive systems (1980) (with Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell)
- Computer text-editing; an information-processing analysis of a routine cognitive skill (1980) (with Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell)
- The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983) (with Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell)
- The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983) (with Thomas P. Moran, Allen Newell)
- User technology; from pointing to pondering (1986) (with Thomas P. Moran)
- Information foraging in information access environments (1995) (with Peter Pirolli)
- Information foraging (1999) (with Peter Pirolli)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 6: The Model Human Processor (The Model Human Processor)
- Chapter 7: GOMS and the Keystroke-Level Model (GOMS)
- Chapter 7: GOMS and the Keystroke-Level Model (The Keystroke-Level Model)