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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. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, and the Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Academy. Pete is Associate Editor of Human Computer Interaction, and his most recent book is titled "Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information." He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.
See my website: www.peterpirolli.com
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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
2009
Impact on process by a social annotation system: a social reading experiment
HCI International 2009
19 July 2009
Activity awareness & social sensemaking 2.0: design of a task force workspace
HCI International 2009
19 July 2009
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser
CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Remembrance of things tagged: How tagging effort affects tag production and human memory
CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Cases of online learning communities in a large enterprise
Social Mediating Technologies Workshop at CHI 2009
4 April 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
31 December 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
1 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
1 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
Distribution of surfers' paths through the World Wide Web: empirical characterization
World Wide Web
31 December 1999
Cognitive architectures and cognitive engineering models in human-computer interaction
The Handbook of Applied Cognition. Sussex, England: Wiley; 1999
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
related focus areas
- Context-Aware Computing & Mobile Interaction
- Enterprise Collaboration & Knowledge Systems
- Information & Communication Technologies
- Information Visualization & Sensemaking
in the news
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Wired For Information: A Brain Built To Google
26 August 2010 | MediaPost
Challenging the limits of open society
23 April 2010 | The New York Times
Are you ready for the new, easier Wikipedia?
26 March 2010 | Search-Internet Marketing
events
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Social Information Foraging and Sensemaking
25 August 2010 | Palo Alto, CA
Want to be retweeted? Large scale analytics on factors impacting retweet in Twitter network
20 August 2010 - 22 August 2010 | Minneapolis, MN
Social Information Foraging and Sensemaking
5 May 2010 | Champaign, IL
contact
email Peter Pirolli