The metaphor of cut and paste was originally used in the WYSIWYG word processing program Gypsy for the Xerox Alto in 1975. While developing Gypsy, Tim Mott studied how non-engineers would use a computer at a publishing company owned by Xerox. This form of user research was a new design concept at Xerox PARC. The users wanted the machine to mimic the creation and editing tasks they performed on paper. The terms cut and paste came into use through this study, referring to the act of moving a block of text to a different location in a document. This task was performed manually by editors rearranging manuscripts on paper.