Peter Pirolli is a Senior Research Scientist at the

Institute for Human and Machine Cognition The Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) is a not-for-profit research institute of the State University System of Florida, with locations in Pensacola and Ocala, Florida. IHMC scientists and engineers investigate a broad range ...

(IHMC). His research involves a mix of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction, with applications in digital health, sensemaking, and information foraging, among other things. Previously he was at the Palo Alto Research Center and he was a tenured Professor in the School of Education at the University of California Berkeley in the Education, Math, Science and Technology Department (EMST). His most well-known work is the development of

Information foraging Information foraging is a theory that applies the ideas from optimal foraging theory to understand how human users search for information. The theory is based on the assumption that, when searching for information, humans use "built-in" foraging mec ...

theory with

Stuart Card Stuart K. Card (born December 21, 1943), an American researcher and retired senior research fellow at Xerox PARC, is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction. With Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. ...

.Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (1995). Information foraging in information access environments. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '95 (pp. 5158). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (1999). Information Foraging. Psychological Review, 106, 643-675. He is also known for seminal work on

sensemaking Sensemaking or sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences. It has been defined as "the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing" ( Weick, Sutcliffe, ...

by intelligence analysts, also with

.Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (2005). The sensemaking process and leverage points for analyst technology. Paper presented at the 2005 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, VA. His recent work has focused on computational predictive models of healthy habit formation in 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 He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985, and a B.Sc. in psychology and anthropology from Trent University. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the National Academy of Education (NAE), and the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Academy.

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National Academy of Inventors award

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SIGCHI Award Recipients
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