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AVI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Information foraging models of browsers for very large document spaces
Information Foraging (IF) Theory addresses user strategies and technology for seeking, gathering, and using on-line information. We present IF-based models and evaluations of two ...
Peter Pirolli, Stuart K. Card
CHI
1997
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Computational Models of Information Scent-Following in a Very Large Browsable Text Collection
An ecological-cognitive framework of analysis and a model-tracing architecture are presented and used in the analysis of data recorded from users browsing a large document collect...
Peter Pirolli
CHI
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Exploring Browser Design Trade-Offs Using a Dynamical Model of Optimal Information Foraging
Designers and researchers of human-computer interaction need tools that permit the rapid exploration and management of hypotheses about complex interactions of designs, task condi...
Peter Pirolli
OZCHI
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
InfoScent evaluator: a semi-automated tool to evaluate semantic appropriateness of hyperlinks in a web site
In this paper, we present InfoScent Evaluator, a tool that automatically evaluates the semantic appropriateness of the descriptions of hyperlinks in web pages. The tool is based o...
Christos Katsanos, Nikolaos K. Tselios, Nikolaos M...
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Reactive information foraging for evolving goals
Information foraging models have predicted the navigation paths of people browsing the web and (more recently) of programmers while debugging, but these models do not explicitly m...
Joseph Lawrance, Margaret M. Burnett, Rachel K. E....