John Millar Carroll (born 1950)
[ is an American distinguished professor of Information Sciences and Technology at ]Pennsylvania State University
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, where he previously served as the Edward Frymoyer Chair of Information Sciences and Technology. Carroll is perhaps best known for his theory of Minimalism
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in computer instruction, training, and technical communication
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.[List of publications by John Carroll]
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Career and research
Carroll was a founder of the study of human–computer interaction, one of the nine core areas of Computer Science
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identified by the Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM). He served on the program committee of the 1982 Bureau of Standards
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Conference on the Human Factors of Computing Systems that in effect inaugurated the field, and was the direct predecessor of the field's flagship conference series, the ACM CHI Conferences.
Since the 1980s, Carroll has been involved in the development of the field of human–computer Interaction. In 1984 he founded the User Interface Institute at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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. In 1994, he joined Virginia Tech
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as Department Head of Computer Science to establish an HCI focus in research and teaching at the university's Center for Human-Computer Interaction.
He was a founding associate editor of the field's premier journal, ''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
''ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interaction. It was established in 1994 and is published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Editors-in-chief ...
'', and a founding member of editorial boards of ''Transactions on Information Systems
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'', ''Behavior and Information Technology'', and the ''International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction''.
Awards and honors
Carroll was elected to the CHI Academy The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–8 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative co ...
in 2002 and received the ACM SIGCHI
The Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups which is focused on human–computer interactions (HCI).
It hosts the flagship annual international H ...
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 for his contribution to the field of human–computer interaction
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(HCI or CHI). He was named an Honorary Fellow
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of the Society for Technical Communication
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in 2015 for his groundbreaking work on Minimalism.[Society for Technical Communication:]
John Carroll Named Honorary Fellow
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References
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Living people
Human–computer interaction researchers
Information systems researchers
1950 births