Information foraging in information access environments
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Article Free Access Share on Information foraging in information access environments Authors: Peter Pirolli Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile , Stuart Card Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CAView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '95: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 1995 Pages 51–58https://doi.org/10.1145/223904.223911Published:01 May 1995Publication History 231citation4,388DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations231Total Downloads4,388Last 12 Months767Last 6 weeks210 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF
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In previous studies, some structures may have performed better than others because they had stronger scent for the target at the top levels of the hierarchy.
“Therefore, in these studies, some structures may have performed better than others because they had stronger scent for the target at the top levels of the hierarchy (i.e., their category labels were more distinctive at the top level).”
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According to Information Foraging Theory, developers make navigation decisions by predicting the value a navigation will bring and the cost they will incur, treating foraging as an optimization problem to maximize expected value per expected cost.
“According to IFT, developers make their navigation decisions by predicting the value a navigation will bring and the cost they will incur if they take that navigation.”
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- Authors
- Pirolli, P., & Card, S.
- Affiliations
- Palo Alto Research Center (US)
- ORCID
- Pirolli, Peter
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '95
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 51-58
- OpenAlex
- W2028770149
- Cited by
- 464
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 20 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 12.68
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Keywords
- information foraging, access to information, information seeking, browsing, information retrieval, user behavior
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