Peter Pirolli

Peter Pirolli is currently a Research Fellow in the Augmented Social Cognition Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He is well known in the Human-Computer Interaction field for pursuing studies of human information interaction. His most well-known work is the development of Information foraging theory with Stuart Card and Ed H. Chi.[1][2][3]

Before joining PARC, Peter was a tenured Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley, and received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985 and a B.Sc. in psychology and anthropology from Trent University.

Peter has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, and the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Academy.[4] He is the author of the book “Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information" [5] and an Associate Editor for Human Computer Interaction journal.

References

  1. ^ Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (1995). Information foraging in information access environments. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '95 (pp. 5158). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
  2. ^ Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (1999). Information Foraging. Psychological Review, 106, 643-675.
  3. ^ Ed H. Chi, Peter Pirolli, James Pitkow. The Scent of a Site: A System for Analyzing and Predicting Information Scent, Usage, and Usability of a Web Site. In Proc. of ACM CHI 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 161--168, 581, 582. ACM Press, 2000. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  4. ^ SIGCHI Award citation
  5. ^ Pirolli, P. (2007). "Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information." New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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