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Peter Pirolli's Degrees

PhD Cognitive Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Cognitive Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Pirolli is a senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition . His research involves a mix of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, with applications in digital health, sensemaking, and information foraging, among other things. Previously he was at the Palo Alto Research Center and he was a tenured professor in the school of education at the University of California Berkeley in the Education, Math, Science and Technology Department .

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Peter Pirolli's Published Works

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Published Works

Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network (2010) (1206)
Information Foraging (2009) (1119)
A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies (1995) (1105)
The Sensemaking Process and Leverage Points for Analyst Technology as Identified Through Cognitive Task Analysis (2007) (893)
The cost structure of sensemaking (1993) (779)
The Structure of Design Problem Spaces (1992) (629)
Silk from a sow's ear: extracting usable structures from the Web (1996) (526)
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web (2001) (492)
Information foraging in information access environments (1995) (491)
Training in Self-Explanation and Self-Regulation Strategies: Investigating the Effects of Knowledge Acquisition Activities on Problem Solving (1995) (471)
Mining Longest Repeating Subsequences to Predict World Wide Web Surfing (1999) (419)
The role of learning from examples in the acquisition of recursive programming skills. (1985) (379)
SNIF-ACT: A Cognitive Model of User Navigation on the World Wide Web (2007) (332)
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information (2007) (302)
Learning Strategies and Transfer in the Domain of Programming (1994) (275)
The singularity is not near: slowing growth of Wikipedia (2009) (268)
Spread of activation. (1984) (257)
Scatter/gather browsing communicates the topic structure of a very large text collection (1996) (240)
Motivating the Notion of Generic Design within Information-Processing Theory: The Design Problem Space (1989) (234)
The scent of a site: a system for analyzing and predicting information scent, usage, and usability of a Web site (2000) (227)
Visualizing the evolution of Web ecologies (1998) (223)
SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web (2003) (220)
Information scent as a driver of Web behavior graphs: results of a protocol analysis method for Web usability (2001) (214)
Computational models of information scent-following in a very large browsable text collection (1997) (205)
Using thumbnails to search the Web (2001) (203)
Distributions of surfers' paths through the World Wide Web: Empirical characterizations (1999) (183)
Life, death, and lawfulness on the electronic frontier (1997) (181)
Investigating the Roles of Knowledge and Cognitive Abilities in Older Adult Information Seeking on the Web (2008) (174)
Rational Analyses of Information Foraging on the Web (2005) (171)
Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content and Social Structure (2011) (170)
Visual information foraging in a focus + context visualization (2001) (155)
From slacktivism to activism: participatory culture in the age of social media (2011) (150)
Information foraging theory (2007) (144)
A taxonomic analysis of what world wide web activities significantly impact people's decisions and actions (2001) (144)
The role of practice in fact retrieval. (1985) (128)
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser (2009) (124)
Do your friends make you smarter?: An analysis of social strategies in online information seeking (2010) (124)
Modeling Individual Differences in Students' Learning Strategies (1995) (114)
Introduction to this Special Issue on Sensemaking (2011) (113)
The effects of information scent on visual search in the hyperbolic tree browser (2003) (110)
An elementary social information foraging model (2009) (93)
The effect of information scent on searching information: visualizations of large tree structures (2000) (89)
A comparison of the use of text summaries, plain thumbnails, and enhanced thumbnails for Web search tasks (2002) (84)
WebEyeMapper and WebLogger: tools for analyzing eye tracking data collected in web-use studies (2001) (82)
With a little help from my friends: examining the impact of social annotations in sensemaking tasks (2009) (81)
It's Not in Their Tweets: Modeling Topical Expertise of Twitter Users (2012) (77)
SparTag.us: a low cost tagging system for foraging of web content (2008) (73)
Table lens as a tool for making sense of data (1996) (72)
Effects of Examples and Their Explanations in a Lesson n Recursion: A Production System Analysis (1991) (70)
Powers of 10: Modeling Complex Information-Seeking Systems at Multiple Scales (2009) (67)
Finding the Adaptive Sweet Spot: Balancing Compliance and Achievement in Automated Stress Reduction (2015) (66)
A Functional Model of Sensemaking in a Neurocognitive Architecture (2013) (65)
The Use of Proximal Information Scent to Forage for Distal Content on the World Wide Web (2004) (60)
So you know you're getting the best possible information: a tool that increases Wikipedia credibility (2009) (58)
A Group-Based Mobile Application to Increase Adherence in Exercise and Nutrition Programs: A Factorial Design Feasibility Study (2016) (54)
Modeling Information Scent: A Comparison of LSA, PMI and GLSA Similarity Measures on Common Tests and Corpora (2007) (53)
Sensemaking (2008) (52)
Scientific Foundations: A Case for Technology- Mediated Social- Participation Theory (2010) (52)
The CACHE Study: Group Effects in Computer-supported Collaborative Analysis (2008) (51)
A Cognitive Model and Computer Tutor for Programming Recursion (1987) (50)
Realizing the value of social media requires innovative computing research (2011) (48)
The cost-of-knowledge characteristic function: display evaluation for direct-walk dynamic information visualizations (1994) (46)
Cyberinfrastructure for Social Action on National Priorities (2010) (45)
Information foraging models of browsers for very large document spaces (1998) (44)
The cost-of-knowledge characteristic function: display evaluation for direct-walk dynamic information visualizations (1994) (44)
Learning to program recursive functions (1988) (42)
The Instructional Design Environment: technology to support design problem solving (1990) (38)
CHAPTER 7 – Exploring and Finding Information (2003) (36)
Student Strategies for Learning Programming from a Computational Environment (1992) (35)
Implementation Intention and Reminder Effects on Behavior Change in a Mobile Health System: A Predictive Cognitive Model (2017) (34)
Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics (2015) (34)
A user-tracing architecture for modeling interaction with the world wide web (2002) (34)
Understanding experts' and novices' expertise judgment of twitter users (2012) (31)
"It's about the information stupid!": why we need a separate field of human-information interaction (2006) (31)
A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system (2013) (30)
Remembrance of things tagged: how tagging effort affects tag production and human memory (2009) (29)
Information Seeking (2009) (28)
BiasTrust: teaching biased users about controversial topics (2012) (28)
A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON USE OF THE CRITICAL DECISION METHOD WITH INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS (2004) (27)
The effect of leading questions on prior memory: evidence for the coexistence of inconsistent memory traces (1984) (26)
A computational cognitive model of self-efficacy and daily adherence in mHealth (2016) (24)
Efficacy of a Smartphone System to Support Groups in Behavior Change Programs (2014) (24)
Information Scent and Web Navigation : Theory , Models , and Automated Usability Evaluation (2006) (24)
Collaborative Intelligence Analysis with CACHE and its Effects on Information Gathering and Cognitive Bias (2006) (23)
Exploring browser design trade-offs using a dynamical model of optimal information foraging (1998) (22)
What Makes Intelligence Analysis Difficult?: A Cognitive Task Analysis (2007) (22)
Aspects of Augmented Social Cognition: Social Information Foraging and Social Search (2007) (21)
Augmented Social Cognition (2008) (21)
Cognitive Models of Human–Information Interaction (2008) (20)
Problem solving by analogy and skill acquisition in the domain of programming (1985) (20)
Xerox Site Report: Four TREC-4 Tracks (1995) (20)
Why You Are More Engaged: Factors Influencing Twitter Engagement in Occupy Wall Street (2012) (20)
Acceptability of a team-based mobile health (mHealth) application for lifestyle self-management in individuals with chronic illnesses (2016) (20)
Soccer Science and the Bayes Community: Exploring the Cognitive Implications of Modern Scientific Communication (2010) (18)
WebLogger: A Data Collection Tool for Web-use Studies (2000) (16)
Navigation in degree of interest trees (2006) (16)
Exploring the cognitive consequences of social search (2009) (15)
Motivating the Notion of Generic (1989) (14)
Leveraging Self-Affirmation to Improve Behavior Change: A Mobile Health App Experiment (2018) (13)
Social Information Foraging and Collaborative Search (2006) (11)
A Model of Self-Explanation Strategies of Instructional Text and Examples in the Acquisition of Programming Skills. (1990) (11)
Sensemaking in a Senseless World: 2018 Workshop Abstract (2018) (11)
Scaffolding the Mastery of Healthy Behaviors with Fittle+ Systems: Evidence-Based Interventions and Theory (2018) (11)
Assisting People to Become Independent Learners in the Analysis of Intelligence (2006) (10)
Use of Critical Analysis Method to Conduct a Cognitive Task Analysis of Intelligence Analysts (2003) (10)
Activity Awareness and Social Sensemaking 2.0: Design of a Task Force Workspace (2009) (10)
Towards a tool for predicting user exploration (2007) (10)
Sensemaking workshop CHI 2009 (2009) (10)
Section 1, What Makes Intelligence Analysis Difficult? A Cognitive Task Analysis of Intelligence Analysts (2007) (10)
On Designing a Social Coach to Promote Regular Aerobic Exercise (2017) (9)
Interaction science SIG: overcoming challenges (2014) (9)
Acceptability of a team-based mobile health (mHealth) application for lifestyle self-management in individuals with chronic illnesses (2016) (8)
Managing evidence in food safety and nutrition (2019) (8)
ACT-R models of information foraging in geospatial intelligence tasks (2015) (8)
Reinforcement learning and counterfactual reasoning explain adaptive behavior in a changing environment (2015) (8)
Multi-scale Resolution of Cognitive Architectures: A Paradigm for Simulating Minds and Society (2018) (8)
Unbiased learning of controversial topics (2012) (7)
Multi-scale resolution of neural, cognitive and social systems (2019) (7)
Measuring Learning Strategies and Understanding: A Research Framework (1992) (7)
Modeling Navigation in Degree-of-Interest Trees (2007) (7)
Indexing the Past (2009) (6)
Making Sense of Sensemaking in the Digital World (2009) (6)
The Role of Mental Models in Learning to Program. (1984) (6)
Cognitive Biases in a Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Task: An ACT-R Model (2012) (5)
Designing for Learning Communities in a Large Enterprise (2010) (5)
Knowledge and Processes in Design (1992) (5)
Social Information Foraging (2007) (5)
Remembrance of Things Tagged : How Tagging Affects Human Information Processing (2007) (5)
An ACT-R model of credibility judgment of micro-blogging web pages (2012) (5)
Adapting Information Search Tools for use by Health Consumers: Challenges and Lessons for Software Designers (2018) (4)
Forensic foraging of change detection in opponent strategies with a neural model of the interactions between temporal and prefrontal cortex (2014) (4)
An exploratory study of the effect of domain knowledge on internet search behavior: The case of diabetes (2007) (4)
Physical Exercise Recommendation and Success Prediction Using Interconnected Recurrent Neural Networks (2020) (4)
Reinforcement learning and instance-based learning approaches to modeling human decision making in a prognostic foraging task (2015) (3)
Thermodynamic Principles in Social Collaborations (2012) (3)
Knowledge and Processes in Design. DPS Final Report. (1992) (3)
Kurt VanLehn, Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconceptions (1991) (3)
Mining Online Social Media to Drive Psychologically Valid Agent Models of Regional Covid-19 Mask Wearing (2021) (3)
Real-Time Learning from an Expert in Deep Recommendation Systems with Application to mHealth for Physical Exercises (2022) (3)
Invasion biology and the success of social collaboration networks, with application to Wikipedia (2013) (3)
From good intentions to healthy habits: towards integrated computational models of goal striving and habit formation. (2016) (2)
Why You Are More Engaged: Factors Influencing (2011) (2)
A Probabilistic Model of Semantics in Social Information Foraging (2008) (2)
From good intentions to healthy habits: Towards integrated computational models of goal striving and habit formation (2016) (2)
Towards a Unified Model of Learning to Program (1993) (2)
Explaining Autonomous Drones: An XAI Journey (2021) (2)
Toward a Psychology of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Using a Cognitive Architecture (2021) (2)
Counterfactual reasoning as a key for explaining adaptive behavior in a changing environment (2014) (2)
Learning to Prognostically Forage in a Neural Network Model of the Interactions between Neuromodulators and Prefrontal Cortex (2014) (2)
HUMAN–INFORMATION INTERACTION: TECHNOLOGY AND THEORY (2011) (1)
A Critical Analysis of FDA Guidance for User Percentile Device Design Criteria Versus Currently Available Human Factors Engineering Data Sources and Industry Best Practices (2019) (1)
Seeking answers, making sense, changing lifestyles: cognitive models of human-information interaction (2014) (1)
System and Method for Multi-Modal Clustering (1999) (1)
A Multilevel Science of Social Information Foraging and Sensemaking (2008) (1)
ACT-R models of information foraging in geospatial intelligence tasks (2015) (1)
A Cognitive Model of Information Foraging on the Web (2007) (1)
Challenges for a Computational Cognitive Psychology for the New Digital Ecosystem (2020) (1)
Inverted Indexes (2009) (1)
Towards the Development of Speech-Based Measures of Stress Response in Individuals (2021) (1)
Multistage Collaboration in CACHE : The Bayes Community Model (2007) (1)
You can't get there from here: Comments on R. W. Sperry's resolution of science and ethics. (1990) (1)
Explaining Autonomous Drones: An XAI Journey (2021) (1)
Computer Assisted Instructional Design for Computer-Based Instruction. Final Report. Working Papers. (1992) (1)
Resting-state heart rate variability after stressful events as a measure of stress tolerance among elite performers (2023) (0)
Perspective 1 — Representation Construction Model of Sensemaking (2011) (0)
Multi-scale resolution of neural, cognitive and social systems (2019) (0)
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Engineering (Lee, J.D. & Kirlik, A., Eds.). NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. (2014) (0)
The Ecology of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web (2007) (0)
A computational cognitive model of behaviors and decisions that modulate pandemic transmission: Expectancy-value, attitudes, self-efficacy, and motivational intensity (2023) (0)
Intelligent Storage (2009) (0)
A Rational Analysis and Computational Cognitive Model of the Scatter/Gather Document Cluster Browser (2007) (0)
Distribution and use control system for digital work, and method for controlling access to digital work (1995) (0)
System for controlling distribution and use of digital work having charge notice mechanism and charge notice method (1995) (0)
Informavores: Active information foraging and human cognition (2013) (0)
Symposium: Informavores: Active information foraging and human cognition (2013) (0)
Stochastic Models of Information Foraging by Information Scent (2007) (0)
Acknowledgment to reviewers (1997) (0)
A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system (2012) (0)
System and method for the analysis of gaze direction measurement data (2001) (0)
Collaborative Explanations and Metacognition: Identifying Successful Learning Activities in the Acquisition of Cognitive Skills (2019) (0)
Design Heuristics, Engineering Models, and Applications (2007) (0)
Interpretable AI for Well-Being Using Mobile Health (2019) (0)
An ACT-R Model of Sensemaking in Geospatial Intelligence Tasks (2013) (0)
Festschrift panel in honor of Stuart K. Card (2011) (0)
Life, Death, and Lawfullness on the Electronic Frontier (1997) (0)
Generality of Transfer of Navigation Knowledge from Degree-of-Interest Trees (2005) (0)
Generative Knowledge and the Development of Situated Know-how in Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Implications for Student Modelling (1992) (0)
Transcutaneous Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation Enhances Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition While Simultaneously Mitigating Fatigue and Promoting Focus (P2-12.002) (2023) (0)
Impact on Performance and Process by a Social Annotation System: A Social Reading Experiment (2009) (0)
Functional Knowledge Requirements for Interactive Task Learning (2019) (0)
Rational Analyses of Information Scent and Web Foraging (2007) (0)
Template for Entry Information Foraging Theory (0)
Real-Time Learning from An Expert in Deep Recommendation Systems with Marginal Distance Probability Distribution (2021) (0)
Multimodal Information Access (2000) (0)
Reinforcement learning and counterfactual reasoning explain adaptive behavior in a changing environment - eScholarship (2014) (0)
Elementary Foraging Models (2007) (0)
AVI'96: an international workshop (1997) (0)
Intelligence Analysis: Developing a Model of the Process Based on a Cognitive Task Analysis (2004) (0)
Display Space-Time Resource Diagrams (1996) (0)
Why You Are More Engaged : Factors Influencing Jilin (2012) (0)
Method for controlling access and distribution to composite digital work, and system for controlling access and use to composite digital work (1995) (0)
Establishing the Micro-to-Macro Link in Cognitive Engineering: Multilevel Models of Socio-Computer Interaction (2013) (0)

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