Biographical Info
I am currently a Research Fellow in the Interactive Intelligence Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where I’ve been pursuing studies of human information interaction since 1991. Before joining PARC, I was a Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley. I received my doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. I received a B.Sc. in psychology and anthropology from Trent University. I have been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, and the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Academy. Please see my book titled “Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information.” I’m currently an Associate Editor for Human Computer Interaction.

![Position: Research Fellow
Where: PARC
Publications: CV
email: pirolli at parc dot com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Disruptive technologies to support healthy behavior, information foraging theory, sensemaking, human-information interaction
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RECENT TALKS & PAPERS
Lebiere et al. (in press). A functional model of sensemaking in a neuroscience architecture. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.
Mangel, Satterthwaite, Pirolli, Suh, & Zhang (in press). Invasion biology and the success of social collaboration networks, with application to Wikipedia. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution.
Pirolli & Kairam (2013). A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system. UMUAI.
Fu & Pirolli (2013). Establishing the micro-to-macro link in cognitive engineering: Multi-level models of socio-computer engineering. Handbook of Cognitive Engineering
Paik, Pirolli, Dong, Lebiere, & Thomson (2013). An ACT-R model of sensemaking in geospatial intelligence tasks. BRIMS 2013
Peng, Zhang, Pirolli, & Hogg. (2012) Thermodynamic principles in social collaborations Collective Intelligence.
Canini, Suh, Pirolli (2011). Finding credible information sources in social networks based on content and socisl structure. SocialCom 2011 [BEST PAPER AWARD]
Fu & Pirolli (2007). SNIF-ACT: A cognitive model of user navigation on the World Wide Web
Shneiderman, Preece, & Pirolli. Realizing the value of social media requires innovative computing research. CACM
Suh, Hong, Pirolli, & Chi (2010). Want to be retweeted? Large scale analytics on factors impacting retweet in Twitter. SocialCom 2010.
Ch 1 of Information Foraging Theory (uncorrected proof)
MORE TALKS & PAPERS
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PARC library
ACM Digital Library
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