Peter Pirolli
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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.
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. He is the author of the book “Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information" and an Associate Editor for Human Computer Interaction journal.
Information foraging
Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory is based on the assumption that, when searching for information, humans use "built-in" foraging mechanisms that evolved to help our animal ancestors...
theory with Stuart Card
Stuart Card
Stuart K. Card is an American researcher and Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction.- Biography :...
and Ed H. Chi.
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. He is the author of the book “Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information" and an Associate Editor for Human Computer Interaction journal.