Thomas P. Moran

Author: Thomas P. Moran

Thomas P. Moran is a Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Almaden Research Center near San Jose, California. He has been active in the field of human computer interaction for a long time. In 1983 the book he wrote along with Stuart Card and Allen Newell The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction was published. It became a very influential book in the field, partly for introducing the Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules (GOMS) model.

He founded and has been Editor-in-Chief of Human-Computer Interaction, one of the leading journals of the field.

He is one of the first CHI Academy members and won ACM SIGCHI's 2004 Life Time Achievement Award. In 2003 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2008 he was elected as a Fellow of AAAS.

Publications

Publication period start: 2011
Number of co-authors: 79

Co-authors

Number of publications with favourite co-authors
Patrick Chiu
6
Allan MacLean
6
William van Melle
8

Productive Colleagues

Most productive colleagues in number of publications
Hiroshi Ishii
111
Scott E. Hudson
113
John M. Carroll
209

Publications

Moran, Thomas P., Cozzi, Alex, Farrell, Stephen P. (2005): Unified activity management: supporting people in e-business. In Communications of the ACM, 48 (12) pp. 67-70. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1101779.1101811

Moran, Thomas P., Dourish, Paul (2001): Introduction to This Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing. In Human-Computer Interaction, 16 (2) pp. 87-95. https://hci-journal.com/editorial/si-context-aware-intro.pdf

Avrahami, Daniel, Hudson, Scott E., Moran, Thomas P., Williams, Brian D. (2001): Guided gesture support in the paper PDA. In: Marks, Joe, Mynatt, Elizabeth D. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 11 - 14, 2001, Orlando, Florida. pp. 197-198. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502348.502385

Fishkin, Kenneth P., Gujar, Anuj, Harrison, Beverly L., Moran, Thomas P., Want, Roy (2000): Embodied user interfaces for really direct manipulation. In Communications of the ACM, 43 (9) pp. 74-80. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/348941.348998

Moran, Thomas P., Saund, Eric, Melle, William van, Gujar, Anuj, Fishkin, Kenneth P., Harrison, Beverly L. (1999): Design and Technology for Collaborage: Collaborative Collages of Information on Physical W. In: Zanden, Brad Vander, Marks, Joe (eds.) Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 07 - 10, 1999, Asheville, North Carolina, United States. pp. 197-206. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/320719/p197-moran/p197-moran.pdf

Moran, Thomas P., Melle, William van, Chiu, Patrick (1998): Tailorable Domain Objects as Meeting Tools for an Electronic Whiteboard. In: Poltrock, Steven, Grudin, Jonathan (eds.) Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 14 - 18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 295-304. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/289444/p295-moran/p295-moran.pdf

Streitz, Norbert A., Hartkopf, Volker, Ishii, Hiroshi, Kaplan, Simon M., Moran, Thomas P. (1998): Cooperative Buildings: Integrating Information, Organization, & Architecture. In: Poltrock, Steven, Grudin, Jonathan (eds.) Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 14 - 18, 1998, Seattle, Washington, United States. pp. 411-413. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/289444/p411-streitz/p411-streitz.pdf

Moran, Thomas P., Melle, William van, Chiu, Patrick (1998): Spatial Interpretation of Domain Objects Integrated into a Freeform Electronic Whiteboard. In: Mynatt, Elizabeth D., Jacob, Robert J. K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 01 - 04, 1998, San Francisco, California, United States. pp. 175-184. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/288392/p175-moran/p175-moran.pdf

Olson, Gary M., Moran, Thomas P. (1998): Introduction to This Special Issue on Experimental Comparisons of Usability Evaluation Met. In Human-Computer Interaction, 13 (3) pp. 199-201.

Edmonds, Ernest, Moran, Thomas P., Do, Ellen (1998): Interactive Systems for Supporting the Emergence of Concepts and Ideas. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 30 (1) pp. 24-25. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin/1998.1/edmonds.html

Moran, Thomas P., Palen, Leysia, Harrison, Steve, Chiu, Patrick, Kimberg, Daniel Y., Minneman, Scott, Melle, William van, Zellweger, Polle T. (1997): "I'll Get That Off the Audio": A Case Study of Salvaging Multimedia Meeting Records. In: Pemberton, Steven (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 97 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference March 22-27, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 202-209. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/258549/p202-moran/p202-moran.pdf

Moran, Thomas P., Chiu, Patrick, Melle, William van (1997): Pen-Based Interaction Techniques for Organizing Material on an Electronic Whiteboard. In: Robertson, George G., Schmandt, Chris (eds.) Proceedings of the 10th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology October 14 - 17, 1997, Banff, Alberta, Canada. pp. 45-54. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/263407/p45-moran/p45-moran.pdf

Moran, Thomas P., Chiu, Patrick, Harrison, Steve, Kurtenbach, Gordon, Minneman, Scott, Melle, William van (1996): Evolutionary Engagement in an Ongoing Collaborative Work Process: A Case Study. In: Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S., Ackerman, Mark S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work November 16 - 20, 1996, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 150-159. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/cscw/240080/p150-moran/p150-moran.pdf

Shipman III, Frank M., Marshall, Catherine C., Moran, Thomas P. (1995): Finding and Using Implicit Structure in Human-Organized Spatial Layouts of Information. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth, Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 346-353. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/fms_bdy.htm

Moran, Thomas P., Chiu, Patrick, Melle, William van, Kurtenbach, Gordon (1995): Implicit Structures for Pen-Based Systems within a Freeform Interaction Paradigm. In: Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth, Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado. pp. 487-494. https://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/proceedings/papers/tpm_bdy.htm

Saund, Eric, Moran, Thomas P. (1994): A Perceptually-Supported Sketch Editor. In: Szekely, Pedro (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology November 02 - 04, 1994, Marina del Rey, California, United States. pp. 175-184. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/uist/192426/p175-saund/p175-saund.pdf

Moran, Thomas P. (1994): Introduction to This Special Issue on Context in Design. In Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (1) pp. 1-2.

Moran, Thomas P. (1994): Commentary on Borderline Issues. In Human-Computer Interaction, 9 (1) pp. 37-135.

Kurtenbach, Gordon, Moran, Thomas P., Buxton, Bill (1994): Contextual animation of gestural commands. In: Graphics Interface 94 May 18-20, 1994, Banff, Alberta, Canada. pp. 83-90.

Kurtenbach, Gordon, Moran, Thomas P., Buxton, Bill (1994): Contextual Animation of Gestural Commands. In Comput. Graph. Forum, 13 (5) pp. 305-314.

Anderson, R. J., Heath, Christian, Luff, Paul, Moran, Thomas P. (1993): The Social and the Cognitive in Human-Computer Interaction. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 38 (6) pp. 999-1016.

Gaver, William W., Moran, Thomas P., MacLean, Allan, Lovstrand, Lennart, Dourish, Paul, Carter, Kathleen, Buxton, Bill (1992): Realizing a Video Environment: EuroPARC's RAVE System. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John, Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 27-35. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/142750/p27-gaver/p27-gaver.pdf

Card, Stuart K., Moran, Thomas P., Robertson, George G. (1992): Remembering Allen Newell. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 24 (4) pp. 22-24.

MacLean, Allan, Bellotti, Victoria, Young, Richard M., Moran, Thomas P. (1991): Reaching Through Analogy: A Design Rationale Perspective on Roles of Analogy. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M., Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 167-172. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/108844/p167-maclean/p167-maclean.pdf

Carroll, John M., Moran, Thomas P. (1991): Introduction to this Special Issue on Design Rationale. In Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (3) pp. 197-200.

MacLean, Allan, Young, Richard M., Bellotti, Victoria, Moran, Thomas P. (1991): Questions, Options, and Criteria: Elements of Design Space Analysis. In Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (3) pp. 201-250.

Bellotti, Victoria, MacLean, Allan, Moran, Thomas P. (1991): What Makes a Good Design Question?. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 23 (4) pp. 80-81.

Moran, Thomas P., Anderson, R. J. (1990): The Workaday World as a Paradigm for CSCW Design. In: Halasz, Frank (eds.) Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work October 07 - 10, 1990, Los Angeles, California, United States. pp. 381-393.

MacLean, Allan, Carter, Kathleen, Lovstrand, Lennart, Moran, Thomas P. (1990): User-Tailorable Systems: Pressing the Issues with Buttons. In: Carrasco, Jane, Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference , 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 175-182.

Moran, Thomas P. (1989): What is EuroPARC?. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 51-52.

MacLean, Allan, Young, Richard M., Moran, Thomas P. (1989): Design Rationale: The Argument Behind the Artifact. In: Bice, Ken, Lewis, Clayton H. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 89 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 30 - June 4, 1989, Austin, Texas. pp. 247-252.

Trigg, Randall H., Moran, Thomas P., Halasz, Frank (1987): Adaptability and Tailorability in NoteCards. In: Bullinger, Hans-Jorg, Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 87 - 2nd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 1-4, 1987, Stuttgart, Germany. pp. 723-728.

Halasz, Frank, Moran, Thomas P., Trigg, Randall H. (1987): NoteCards in a nutshell. In: Graphics Interface 87 (CHI+GI 87) April 5-9, 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 45-52.

Shrager, Jeff, Jordan, Daniel S., Moran, Thomas P., Kiczales, Gregor, Russell, Daniel M. (1987): Issues in the Pragmatics of Qualitative Modeling: Lessons Learned from a Xerographics Proj. In Communications of the ACM, 30 (12) pp. 1036-1047.

Mack, Robert L., Moran, Thomas P., Olson, Judith R., Wixon, Dennis (1985): Computer Human Factors in Computer Interface Design. In: Borman, Lorraine, Curtis, Bill (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 85 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1985, San Francisco, California. pp. 137-138.

Moran, Thomas P. (1985): Introduction to this Special Issue on New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. In Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (4) pp. 309-310.

Rosenberg, Jarrett, Moran, Thomas P. (1984): Generic Commands. In: Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 84 - 1st IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction September 4-7, 1984, London, UK. pp. 245-249.

Moran, Thomas P. (1983): Getting Into a System: External-Internal Task Mapping Analysis. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 45-49.

Douglas, Sarah A., Moran, Thomas P. (1983): Learning Text Editor Semantics by Analogy. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 207-211.

Halasz, Frank, Moran, Thomas P. (1983): Mental Models and Problem Solving in Using a Calculator. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 212-216.

Ross, Brian H., Moran, Thomas P. (1983): Remindings and Their Effects in Learning a Text Editor. In: Smith, Raoul N., Pew, Richard W., Janda, Ann (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 83 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conferenc December 12-15, 1983, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. pp. 222-225.

Roberts, Teresa L., Moran, Thomas P. (1983): The Evaluation of Text Editors: Methodology and Empirical Results. In Communications of the ACM, 26 (4) pp. 265-283.

Black, John B., Moran, Thomas P. (1982): Learning and Remembering Command Names. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 8-11.

Roberts, Teresa L., Moran, Thomas P. (1982): Evaluation of Text Editors. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 136-141.

Moran, Thomas P., Card, Stuart K. (1982): Applying Cognitive Psychology to Computer Systems: A Graduate Seminar in Psychology. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 295-298.

Halasz, Frank, Moran, Thomas P. (1982): Analogy Considered Harmful. In: Nichols, Jean A., Schneider, Michael L. (eds.) Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems March 15-17, 1982, Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States. pp. 383-386.

Moran, Thomas P. (1982): From task to interaction: What the user must know. In: Graphics Interface 82 May 17-21, 1982, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 13.

Moran, Thomas P. (1981): Editorial: Special Issue on "The Semantics and Syntax of Human-Computer Interaction". In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 15 (1) pp. 1-2.

Moran, Thomas P. (1981): The Command Language Grammar: A Representation for the User Interface of Interactive Compu. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 15 (1) pp. 3-50.

Card, Stuart K., Moran, Thomas P., Newell, Allen (1980): The keystroke-level model for user performance with interactive systems. In Communications of the ACM, 23 (0) pp. 396-410.

Harrison, Beverly L., Cozzi, Alex, Moran, Thomas P. (2005): Roles and relationships for unified activity management. In: GROUP05: International Conference on Supporting Group Work November 6-9, 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. pp. 236-245. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099203.1099245

Moran, Thomas P. (2002): Everyday adaptive design. In: Proceedings of DIS02: Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, & Techniques , 2002, . pp. 13-14. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/778712.778715

Moran, Thomas P. (2000): Using Distance Education to Teach Introductory Multimedia Design and Production. In: IEEE IPCC 2000 / ACM 18th International Conference on Systems Documentation , 2000, . pp. 93-98.

Moran, Thomas P. (1998): Designing Usable Lists. In: ACM 16th International Conference on Systems Documentation , 1998, . pp. 58-62. https://www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/doc/296336/p58-moran/p58-moran.pdf

Muller, Michael J., Kuchinskaya, Olga, Minassian, Suzanne O., Tang, John C., Danis, Catalina, Zhao, Chen, Harrison, Beverly L., Moran, Thomas P. (2005): Shared landmarks in complex coordination environments. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2005, . pp. 1681-1684. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1056808.1056996

Fishkin, Kenneth P., Moran, Thomas P., Harrison, Beverly L. (1999): Embodied User Interfaces: Towards Invisible User Interfaces. In: Chatty, Stephane, Dewan, Prasun (eds.) Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction, IFIP TC2/TC13 WG2.7/WG13.4 Seventh Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction September 14-18, 1999, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. pp. 1-18.

Minneman, Scott L., Harrison, Steve R., Janssen, Bill, Kurtenbach, Gordon, Moran, Thomas P., Smith, Ian E., Melle, William van (1995): A Confederation of Tools for Capturing and Accessing Collaborative Activity. In: ACM Multimedia 1995 , 1995, . pp. 523-534. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/217279.215316

Balakrishnan, Aruna D., Matthews, Tara, Moran, Thomas P. (2010): Fitting an activity-centric system into an ecology of workplace tools. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2010, . pp. 787-790. https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1753326.1753441

Chi, ChangYan, Liao, Qinying, Pan, Yingxin, Zhao, Shiwan, Matthews, Tara, Moran, Thomas P., Zhou, Michelle X., Millen, David, Lin, Ching-Yung, Guy, Ido (2011): Smarter social collaboration at IBM research. In: Proceedings of ACM CSCW11 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work , 2011, . pp. 159-166. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958848

Moran, Thomas P. (2003): Activity: Analysis, design, and management. In: Symposium on the Foundations of Interaction Design , 2003, Ivrea, Italy. https://www.interaction-ivrea.it/en/news/education/2003-04/symposium/programme/moran/index.asp

Kandogan, Eser, Kim, Juho, Moran, Thomas P., Pedemonte, Pablo (2011): How a freeform spatial interface supports simple problem solving tasks. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , 2011, . pp. 925-934. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979079

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