Pirolli, Peter

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Peter Pirolli

Peter Pirolli is a Fellow of the National Academy of Education.

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. Since 1991 he is a Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) at the User Interface Research where he does a lot of research especially on

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

Information Foraging includes 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.

External Links:

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