Research
My current interests involve disruptive mobile health technologies for precision behavioral medicine to support healthy behavior. I also lead scientific and engineering research on information foraging theory, sensemaking and, more generally, the phenomena of human-information interaction. I am currently working on COVID-19 epidemiological models based on cognitive science.
Research Interests
Orr. M., Lebiere, C., Stocco, A., Pirolli P., Pires, B., & Kennedy, W.G. (2018). Multi-scale Resolution of Cognitive Architectures: A Paradigm for Simulating Minds and Society. In: Thomson R., Dancy C., Hyder A., Bisgin H. (eds) Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. SBP-BRiMS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10899. Springer. [BEST PAPER AWARD]
Zhang, Paik, 7 Pirolli (2014). Reinforcment learning and counterfactual reasoning explain adaptive behavior in a changing environment. Cognitive Science 2014. [APPLIED MODELING AWARD]
Pirolli & Kairam (2013). A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system. UMUAI. [JAMES CHEN AWARD]
Canini, Suh, Pirolli (2011). Finding credible information sources in social networks based on content and socisl structure. SocialCom 2011 [BEST PAPER AWARD]
Pirolli & Fu (2003). SNIF-ACT: A model of information foraging on the World Wide Web. User Modeling 2003. [BEST PAPER AWARD]
Best Paper Awards
Stefik, M, Youngblood, M, Pirolli, P, et al. Explaining autonomous drones: An XAI journey. Applied AI Letters. 2021; 2( 4):e54. doi:10.1002/ail2.54
Mitsopoulos, K., Somers, S., Schooler, J., Lebiere, C., Pirolli, P. and Thomson, R. (2021), Toward a Psychology of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Using a Cognitive Architecture. Top. Cogn. Sci.. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12573
Pirolli, P., Bhatia, A., Mitsopoulos, K., Lebiere, C. and Orr, M. Cognitive modeling for computational epidemiology. in 2020 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling & Prediction and Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (SPB-BRIMS 2020), Springer, Washington, DC, 2020.
Mauro, Charles and Pirolli, Peter and Morley, Chris, A Critical Analysis of FDA Guidance for User Percentile Device Design Criteria versus Currently Available Human Factors Engineering Data Sources and Industry Best Practices (June 25, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3408117
Cavalli, E, Gilsenan, M, Van Doren, J, Grahek‐Ogden, D, Richardson, J, Abbinante, F, Cascio, C, Devalier, P, Brun, N, Linkov, I, Marchal, K, Meek, B, Pagliari, C, Pasquetto, I, Pirolli, P, Sloman, S, Tossounidis, L, Waigmann, E, Schünemann, H and Verhagen, H. (2019). Managing evidence in food safety and nutrition. EFSA Journal, 17(S1), e170704. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2019.e170704
INTELLIGENT MOBILE HEALTH
Pirolli, P., Youngblood, G. M., Du, H., Konrad, A., Nelson, L., & Springer, A. (2018). Scaffolding the Mastery of Healthy Behaviors with Fittle+ Systems: Evidence-Based Interventions and Theory. Human–Computer Interaction, 1-34. doi:10.1080/07370024.2018.1512414
Springer A, Venkatakrishnan A, Mohan S, Nelson L, Silva M, Pirolli P
Leveraging Self-Affirmation to Improve Behavior Change: A Mobile Health App Experiment
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2018;6(7)
Pirolli P, Mohan S, Venkatakrishnan A, Nelson L, Silva M, Springer A
J Med Internet Res 2017;19(11):e397
Hernandez, M., Sharit, J. Pirolli, P. & Czaja, S. (2017). Adapting Information Search Tools for use by Health Consumers: Challenges and Lessons for Software Designers. International Journal of Human Computer Interaction.
Mohan, S., Venkatakrishnan, A., Silva, M,. & Pirolli, P. (2017). On designing a social coach to promote regular aerobic exercise. IAAI 2017.
Pirolli, P. (2016). From good intentions to healthy habits: Towards integrated computational models of goal striving and habit formation. Annual International; Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
Pirolli, P. (2016). A computational cognitive model of self-efficacy and daily adherence in mHealth. Translational behavioral medicine, 1-13.
Du, H., Venkatakrishnan, A., Youngblood, G. M., Ram, A., & Pirolli, P. (2016). A Group-Based Mobile Application to Increase Adherence in Exercise and Nutrition Programs: A Factorial Design Feasibility Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 4(1),
Konrad, A., Bellotti, V., Crenshaw, N., Tucker, S., Nelson, L., Du, H., Pirolli,P., & Whittaker, S. (2015). Finding the Adaptive Sweet Spot: Balancing Compliance and Achievement in Automated Stress Reduction. Paper presented at the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), Seoul, Korea.
Du, Youngblood, & Pirolli. (2014). Efficacy of a smartphone system to support groups in behavior change programs. Wireless Health 2014.
COGNITIVE MODELS OF FORAGING AND SENSEMAKING
Paik, Zhang, & Pirolli (2014). Counterfactual reasoning as a key for explaining adaptive behavior in a changing environment. BICA 2014.
Lebiere et al. (2013). A functional model of sensemaking in a neuroscience architecture. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience.
Paik, Pirolli, Dong, Lebiere, & Thomson (2013). An ACT-R model of sensemaking in geospatial intelligence tasks. BRIMS 2013
Fu & Pirolli (2007). SNIF-ACT: A cognitive model of user navigation on the World Wide Web
SOCIAL COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS
Vydiswaran, Zhai, Roth, & Pirolli (2014). Overcoming bias to learn about controversial topics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Mangel, Satterthwaite, Pirolli, Suh, & Zhang (2013). Invasion biology and the success of social collaboration networks, with application to Wikipedia. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution.
Peng, Zhang, Pirolli, & Hogg. (2012) Thermodynamic principles in social collaborations Collective Intelligence.
Liao, Q. V., Pirolli, P., & Fu, W. (2012). An ACT-R model of credibility judgment of micro-blogging Web Pages. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2012) (pp. 103-108). Berlin, Germany: Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin.
Chen, J., & Pirolli, P. (2012). Why You Are More Engaged: Factors Influencing Twitter Engagement in Occupy Wall Street. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2012
Vydiswaran, Zhai, Roth, & Pirolli (2012). Unbiased learning of controversial topics. ASIST 2012.
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 201
Fu & Pirolli (2013). Establishing the micro-to-macro link in cognitive engineering: Multi-level models of socio-computer engineering. Handbook of Cognitive Engineering
Pirolli (2007). Cognitive models of human-information interaction. Handbook of Applied Cognition (2nd Ed)
Pirolli (2007). Ch 1 of Information Foraging Theory (uncorrected proof)
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