Pirolli-Card. Front matter-CHI03 IF Tutorial

CHI 2003 Tutorial Information Foraging Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 Instructor BiographiesPeter Pirolli is a Principal Scientist in the User Interface Research area at PARC. Hereceived his B.Sc. in Psychology and Anthropology from Trent University, Canada,where he conducted a published research related to eyewitness memory. He earned hisM.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University where hedeveloped computational models of students learning to program and helped develop anintelligent tutoring system for programming. He became a Professor in the School ofEducation at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also Associate Directorof the Cognitive Science Program. During that period he studied computational modelsof metacognition, intelligent tutoring systems, and design problem solving, and hebecame a Fellow of the National Academy of Education. He joined Xerox PARC in1991, where he is engaged in studies of human-information interaction, informationforaging theory, and the development of new user interface technologies.Stuart Card is a Senior Research Fellow at PARC and head of the User InterfaceResearch group. He has developed models in human-computer interaction, includingGOMS and the Fitts’s Law model of the mouse as well as new user interface te3chniques,such as Rooms and focus+context information visualization methods. His most recentbook, Readings ...