# Peter Pirolli

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'''Peter Pirolli''' is a senior research scientist at the [Institute for Human and Machine Cognition](/source/Institute_for_Human_and_Machine_Cognition) (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](/source/Palo_Alto_Research_Center) and he was a tenured professor in the school of education at the [University of California Berkeley](/source/University_of_California_Berkeley) in the Education, Math, Science and Technology Department (EMST).

His most well-known work is the development of [Information foraging](/source/Information_foraging) theory with [Stuart Card](/source/Stuart_Card).<ref name="PC95">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.</ref><ref name="PC99">Pirolli, P., & Card, S. K. (1999). Information Foraging.  Psychological Review, 106, 643-675.</ref> He is also known for seminal work on [sensemaking](/source/sensemaking) by intelligence analysts, also with [Stuart Card](/source/Stuart_Card).<ref name="PC05">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.</ref> His recent work has focused on computational predictive models of healthy habit formation in mobile health.<ref name="P18">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</ref>

He received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from [Carnegie Mellon University](/source/Carnegie_Mellon_University) in 1985, and a B.Sc. in psychology and anthropology from [Trent University](/source/Trent_University).

He is a Fellow of the [National Academy of Inventors](/source/National_Academy_of_Inventors) (NAI), the [American Association for the Advancement of Science](/source/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science) (AAAS), the [American Psychological Association](/source/American_Psychological_Association) (APA), the [Association for Psychological Science](/source/Association_for_Psychological_Science) (APS), the [National Academy of Education](/source/National_Academy_of_Education) (NAE), and the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Academy.

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==External links==
* [https://www.ihmc.us/news20171215/ National Academy of Inventors award]
* [https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135760&org=NSF A scientific smartphone tool for personalized health]
* [http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/information-foraging/interview.html Interview for the Information Foraging book]
* [http://www.peterpirolli.com/index.html Peter Pirolli home page]
* [https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/ SIGCHI Award Recipients] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301093727/https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/ |date=2020-03-01 }}

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