PROFILE:
Peter Pirolli
Peter Pirolli is a Research Fellow at PARC, where he has been pursuing studies of human information interaction for over 15 years. Prior to joining PARC, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley.
Pete is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, and the Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Academy. He is Associate Editor of Human Computer Interaction, and his most recent book is titled "Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information."
Pete received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
PARC publications
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2012
BiasTrust: teaching biased users about controversial topics
21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
29 October 2012
Unbiased learning of controversial topics
75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST 2012)
26 October 2012
Cognitive biases in a geospatial intelligence analysis task: an ACT-R model
Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
1 August 2012
Why are you more engaged: factors influencing Twitter engagement in Occupy Wall Street
International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2012
4 June 2012
Understanding experts' and novices' expertise judgment of Twitter users
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012)
9 May 2012
2011
Finding credible information sources in social networks based on content and social structure
Best paper award at SocialCom 2011
9 October 2011
Realizing the value of social media requires innovative computing research
Communications of the ACM
24 August 2011
APA Fellow Invited Address: Information foraging in the social web
American Psychological Association Convention
4 August 2011
Introduction to this special issue on sensemaking
Editors' introduction to a special issue of Human-Computer Interaction
January - June 2011
2010
Scientific foundations: a case for technology-mediated social-participation theory
Computer Magazine
November 2010
Cyberinfrastructure for social action on national priorities
Editors' introduction to Computer Magazine special issue on Technology-Mediated Social Participation
November 2010
Want to be retweeted? Large scale analytics on factors impacting retweet in Twitter network
IEEE SocialCom 2010
20 August 2010
topiCS - Topics in Cognitive Science
January 2010
Do your friends make you smarter?: an analysis of social strategies in online information seeking
Information Processing & Management
November 2010
2009
Impact on performance and process by a social annotation system: a social reading experiment
Foundations of Augmented Cognition, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference (FAC 2009)
19 July 2009
Activity awareness & social sensemaking 2.0: design of a task force workspace
Foundations of Augmented Cognition, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference (FAC 2009)
19 July 2009
Remembrance of things tagged: How tagging effort affects tag production and human memory
CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser
CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Cases of online learning communities in a large enterprise
Social Mediating Technologies Workshop at CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Powers of 10: modeling complex information-seeking systems at multiple scales
Computer Magazine
March 2009
2008
The CACHE study: group effects in computer-supported collaborative analysis
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
August 2008
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
1 January 2008
2007
A new perspective on use of the critical decision method with intelligence analysts
Expertise Out of Context: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making
2007
SNIF-ACT: a cognitive model of user navigation on the World Wide Web
Human Computer Interaction
2007
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Conference of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society
1 October 2007
Modeling navigation in degree of interest trees
29th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
1 August 2007
8th RIAO Conference
30 May 2007
Cognitive models of human-information interaction
Handbook of Applied Cognition, second edition
1 April 2007
2006
Information scent and Web navigation: theory, models and automated usability evaluation
The Next Wave: NSA's Review of Emerging Technologies
31 December 2006
The use of proximal information scent to forage for distal content on the World Wide Web
Working with technology in mind: Brunswikian resources for cognitive science and engineering
31 December 2006
PARC technical report
September 2006
Navigation in degree of interest trees
8th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2006)
23 May 2006
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) Extended Abstracts
22 April 2006
2005
Information scent and web navigation: theory, models, and automated usability evaluation
Human Computer Interaction International 2005
22 July 2005
Navigation in degree-of-interest trees
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual ACT-R Workshop
15 July 2005
The cognitive structure of user sense making (Keynote talk)
Seventh International Workshop on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries 2005
4 May 2005
2004
Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
1 January 2004
2003
SNIF-ACT: a model of information foraging on the World Wide Web
9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2003)
22 June 2003
Exploring and finding information
HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks, First Edition : Toward a Multidisciplinary Science
10 April 2003
Information foraging (tutorial)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2003)
5 April 2003
The effects of information scent on visual search in the hyperbolic tree browser
ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction
March 2003
2002
Human-information interaction: technology and theory
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, developed under the auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS publishers, Oxford, UK
31 December 2002
A user-tracing architecture for modeling interaction with the World Wide Web
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2002)
22 May 2002
Information foraging (Tutorial)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2002)
22 April 2002
Information foraging theory: models and applications
University of California, Santa Barbara, Cognitive Science Colloquium
22 February 2002
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
15 January 2002
2001
Information foraging theory: recent models and applications
UC Berkeley Digital Library Colloquium
10 October 2001
Extended Abstracts of CHI 2001, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
3 April 2001
WebEyeMapper and WebLogger: tools for analyzing eye tracking data collected in web-use studies
Extended Abstracts of CHI 2001,the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2 April 2001
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001)
31 March 2001
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web
Proceedings of 2001 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001)
31 March 2001
2000
AVI 2000; Advanced Visual Interfaces
23 May 2000
WebLogger: a data collection tool for Web-use studies
PARC Technical Report; UIR-2000-06
1 January 2000
1999
Cognitive architectures and cognitive engineering models in human-computer interaction
The Handbook of Applied Cognition. Sussex, England: Wiley; 1999
31 December 1999
Distribution of surfers' paths through the World Wide Web: empirical characterization
World Wide Web
31 December 1999
Mining longest repeated subsequences to predict World Wide Web surfing
Second USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
11 October 1999
1998
Information foraging models of browsers for very large document spaces.
Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '98)
24 May 1998
Visualizing the evolution of Web ecologies
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'98)
18 April 1998
A theory of measurement of knowledge content, access and learning
Psychological Review
31 January 1998
1997
1996
Scatter/gather browsing communicates the topic structure of a very large text collection
CHI '96
13 April 1996
1995
Information foraging in information access environments
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '95)
7 May 1995
1994
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '94)
24 April 1994
1993
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Memory Foraging: When the Brain Behaves Like a Bee
16 April 2012 | Scientific American
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23 May 2011 | Forbes
Innovation That Lays the Golden Eggs
22 May 2011 | Marketoonist