b. 1942, USA · Computer scientist; long-time researcher at Xerox PARC and IBM
Also known as: Thomas P. Moran
Thomas P. Moran worked with Stuart Card and Allen Newell at Xerox PARC during the 1970s and early 1980s on the research programme that produced the Model Human Processor and GOMS family of predictive models. He brought a strong interest in command languages, task analysis, and the formalisation of user behaviour to the collaboration, and the resulting 1983 book remains the canonical reference on engineering models in HCI.
After PARC he led research at IBM Almaden Research Center, working on tangible interfaces and intelligent environments. His later work on annotation, sketching, and meeting capture explored how computational tools could be designed to fit naturally into human collaborative practice rather than imposing a fixed workflow.
Related people: Stuart Card, Allen Newell
Works cited in this book:
- The keystroke-level model for user performance time with interactive systems (1980) (with Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell)
- Computer text-editing; an information-processing analysis of a routine cognitive skill (1980) (with Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell)
- The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983) (with Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell)
- The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction (1983) (with Stuart K. Card, Allen Newell)
- User technology; from pointing to pondering (1986) (with Stuart K. Card)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 6: The Model Human Processor (The Model Human Processor)
- Chapter 7: GOMS and the Keystroke-Level Model (GOMS)