Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
by Peter L. T. Pirolli
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1. Information Foraging Theory: Framework and Method 2. Elementary Foraging Models 3. The Ecology of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web 4. Rational Analyses of Information Scent and Web Foraging 5. A Cognitive Model of Information Foraging on the Web 6. A Rational Analysis and Computational Cognitive Model of the Scatter/Gather Document Cluster Browser 7. Stochastic Models of Information Foraging by Information Scent 8. Social Information Foraging 9. Design Heuristics, show more Engineering Models, and Applications 10. Future Directions: Upward, Downward, Inward, and Outward show lessTags
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A useful book for understanding how users look for information on website or in other large corpora. I appreciate how the author isolated a variety of testable variables for determining both how users foraged for information and measuring the effects on reading and understanding.
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Peter Pirolli is a Research Fellow in the Augmented Social Cognition Area at the Palo Alto Research Center, where he has been pursuing studies of human information interaction since 1991. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, the National Academy of Education, and the show more SIGCHI Academy. show less
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- Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
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- Nonfiction, Technology, Science & Nature
- DDC/MDS
- 025.5 — Computer science, information & general works Library & information sciences Administration; Departments Services and programs for users
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- ZA3075 .P57 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Information resources/materials Information resources (General)
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