CSLI COGLUNCH
              on Thursday, 11 March 2004, 12:15pm-1:30pm
                        Cordura Hall, Room 100
            http://www-csli.stanford.edu/events/Coglunch/

  "The Role of Information Scent in Information Foraging on the Web"
                            Peter Pirolli
                                 PARC

The Web can be viewed as a probabilistically textured environment in
which users have to use local cues (graphical icons; link summaries)
to make navigation choices in order to get to desired information. A
rational analysis of this problem has lead to the development of
computational cognitive model of users seeking information on the Web
that simulates user data from a variety of experimental studies.

About the Speaker: Peter Pirolli is Principal Scientist in the User
Interface Research Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).