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'''Peter Pirolli''' is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education and one of the most important theorists of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).


'''Peter Pirolli''' is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. Since 1991 he also is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in the User Interface Research.
His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University).  
His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University).  


His research interests are:
From 1985 to 1994 he was a professor at the School of Education at the University of California (Berkeley) and a member of the Cognitive Science Institute.
His work has concerned the interaction of human and computational knowledge-based systems, first in intelligent tutoring systems, then in cognitive models for human-computer interaction, methods for analyzing information seeking and Internet behavior, sensemaking, visual attention, and most recently in social foraging.
 
Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where his main research interests are  
*Human-Information
*Human-Information
*Cognitive Science
*Cognitive Science
*Information Foraging Theory, Information Scent and Sense Making (e.g. Table Lense Method)
*[[Information Foraging ]]Theory , Information Scent and Sense Making (e.g. Table Lense Method)
 
Information Foraging concerns strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using information e.g. on-line information in the web with its most important concept: Information Scent.






Besides this his other interests are sports like e.g. surfing, inline-skating, weightlifting, mountainbiking and running.
Besides this his other interests are sports like e.g. surfing, inline-skating, weightlifting, mountainbiking and running.

Latest revision as of 10:57, 11 April 2006

Peter Pirolli

Peter Pirolli is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education and one of the most important theorists of Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

His Grades are a B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology (Trent University, Canada) and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (Carnegie Mellon University).

From 1985 to 1994 he was a professor at the School of Education at the University of California (Berkeley) and a member of the Cognitive Science Institute. His work has concerned the interaction of human and computational knowledge-based systems, first in intelligent tutoring systems, then in cognitive models for human-computer interaction, methods for analyzing information seeking and Internet behavior, sensemaking, visual attention, and most recently in social foraging.

Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where his main research interests are

  • Human-Information
  • Cognitive Science
  • Information Foraging Theory , Information Scent and Sense Making (e.g. Table Lense Method)



Besides this his other interests are sports like e.g. surfing, inline-skating, weightlifting, mountainbiking and running.

External Links:[edit]

http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/pirolli/pirolli.html