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D-Index
63
Citations
24313
World Ranking
2688
National Ranking
1333

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter Pirolli is affiliated with the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Modeling and Simulation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work covers a diverse range of main topics, prominently featuring COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control, Mental Health Research, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, AI-based Problem Solving and Planning, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research.

Recent publications by Peter Pirolli include the following papers:

  • "Why You Are More Engaged: Factors Influencing Twitter Engagement in Occupy Wall Street" (2021), published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Toward a Psychology of Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents Using a Cognitive Architecture" (2021), published in Topics in Cognitive Science
  • "Resting-state heart rate variability after stressful events as a measure of stress tolerance among elite performers" (2023), published in Frontiers in Physiology
  • "Transcutaneous cervical vagus nerve stimulation enhances second-language vocabulary acquisition while simultaneously mitigating fatigue and promoting focus" (2024), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Explaining autonomous drones: An XAI journey" (2021), published in Applied AI Letters

Frequent co-authors of Peter Pirolli include:

  • Christian Lebière
  • Konstantinos Mitsopoulos
  • Toshiya Miyatsu
  • Timothy J. Broderick
  • Mark T. Orr

Peter Pirolli's works have been often published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Topics in Cognitive Science
  • Frontiers in Epidemiology
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2017 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network

    Bongwon Suh;Lichan Hong;Peter Pirolli;Ed H. Chi

  • A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies

    John Lamping;Ramana Rao;Peter Pirolli

  • System and method for permitting use of content

    Mark J. Stefik;Peter L.T. Pirolli

  • SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL WORK HAVING FEE REPORTING MECHANISM

    Stefik Mark J;Merkle Ralph C;Pirolli Peter L T

  • Strong Regularities in World Wide Web Surfing

    Bernardo A. Huberman;Peter L. T. Pirolli;James E. Pitkow;Rajan M. Lukose

  • Information Foraging

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  • The cost structure of sensemaking

    Daniel M. Russell;Mark J. Stefik;Peter Pirolli;Stuart K. Card

  • Information foraging theory

    Peter L. T. Pirolli

  • Silk from a sow's ear: extracting usable structures from the Web

    Peter Pirolli;James Pitkow;Ramana Rao

  • Information foraging in information access environments

    Peter Pirolli;Stuart Card

  • Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web

    Ed H. Chi;Peter Pirolli;Kim Chen;James Pitkow

  • The role of learning from examples in the acquisition of recursive programming skills.

    Peter L. Pirolli;John R. Anderson

  • Mining longest repeating subsequences to predict world wide web surfing

    James Pitkow;Peter Pirolli

  • SNIF-ACT: a cognitive model of user navigation on the world wide web

    Wai-Tat Fu;Peter Pirolli

  • Scatter/gather browsing communicates the topic structure of a very large text collection

    Peter Pirolli;Patricia Schank;Marti Hearst;Christine Diehl

  • The scent of a site: a system for analyzing and predicting information scent, usage, and usability of a Web site

    Ed H. Chi;Peter Pirolli;James Pitkow

  • Method and system for providing search based on topic

    Stuart K Card;Lichan Hong;Peter L Pirolli;Mark J Stefik

  • SNIF-ACT: a model of information foraging on the world wide web

    Peter Pirolli;Wai-Tat Fu

  • Using thumbnails to search the Web

    Allison Woodruff;Andrew Faulring;Ruth Rosenholtz;Julie Morrsion

  • Visualizing the evolution of Web ecologies

    Ed H. Chi;James Pitkow;Jock Mackinlay;Peter Pirolli

  • Information scent as a driver of Web behavior graphs: results of a protocol analysis method for Web usability

    Stuart K. Card;Peter Pirolli;Mija Van Der Wege;Julie B. Morrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Stefik
Mark J. Stefik Palo Alto Research Center
Ed H. Chi
Ed H. Chi Google (United States)
James E. Pitkow
James E. Pitkow Palo Alto Research Center
Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card Stanford University
Francine R. Chen
Francine R. Chen FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Lichan Hong
Lichan Hong Google (United States)
Ashwin Ram
Ashwin Ram Georgia Institute of Technology
Christian Lebiere
Christian Lebiere Carnegie Mellon University
John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel M. Russell
Daniel M. Russell University of Zurich

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