Career
His study of input devices led to the Fitts"s Law characterization of the computer mouse and was a major factor leading to the mouse"s commercial introduction by Xerox, most notably in the Alto and Star projects, some of the very earliest GUI systems employing a desktop metaphor. The 1983 book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, which he co-wrote with Thomas P. Moran and Allen Newell, became seminal work in the Human Computer Interaction field Further research into the theoretical characterizations of human–machine interaction led to developments like "the Model Human Processor, the GOMS theory of user interaction, information foraging theory, and statistical descriptions of Internet use".
In the new millennium his research has been focusing on developing a "supporting science of human–information interaction and visual-semantic prototypes to aid sense making".
Card received an Bachelor of Arts in physics from the Oberlin College in 1966, and a Doctor of Philosophy in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. He started working as an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University in the late 1960s.
Since 1974 he has been working at Palo Alto Research Center and was the Area Manager of the User Interface Research group. He retired from Palo Alto Research Center in 2010 but has been a consulting professor in Stanford University"s Computer Science department.
In 2001 he was elected to the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Academy.
On May 26, 2008, Card was made an Honorary Doctor of Science by Oberlin College.
