Publications in Information Search

Prezenski, S. and Russwinkel, N. (2016). Towards a general model of repeated app usage. In D. Reitter & F. E. Ritter (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. University Park, PA: Penn State.

Janssen, C.P., Young, R.M., Ament, G.A., Back, J., Brumby, D.P., Cox, A.L., & Grace, J. (2010). Cognitive Modelling at the UCL Interaction Centre. In Proceedings of the European ACT-R Workshop 2010. Groningen, Netherlands.

Gerjets, P. & Kammerer, Y. (2010). Topical Relevance and Information Quality in Cognitive Models of Web Search Behavior: Introducing Epistemic Scent into Information Foraging Theory. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.

Teo, L. & John, B. E. (2010). The evolution of a goal-directed exploration model: Effects of information scent and go-back utility on successful exploration. In D. D. Salvucci & G. Gunzelmann (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 253-258). Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University.

Moon. M. J. & Fu, W.-T.(2010). Adaptive Information Indexing in Re-finding Information. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.

Fu, W.-T. & Pirolli, P. (2007). The nature of belief inhibition in thinking: How reasoning impairs memory. In The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Fu, W.-T., & Gray, W. D. (2006). Suboptimal tradeoffs in information seeking. Cognitive Psychology, 52(3), 195-242.

Budiu, R., Pirolli, P., & Fleetwood, M. (2006). Navigation of degree of interest trees. In Proceedings of the Advanced Visual Interfaces Conference (AVI’06), Venice, Italy.

Pirolli, P. (2005) Rational analyses of information foraging on the web. Cognitive Science, 29, 343-373.

Brumby, D. P. & Howes, A. (2004). Good enough but I'll just check: Web-paged search as attentional refocusing. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 46-51). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh.

Brumby, D. P. (2004) A model of single-page web search: The effect of interdependence on link assessment. In Proceedings of the sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 402-403). Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh.

Pirolli, P. L. (2004). The Use of Proximal Information Scent to Forage for Distal Content on the World Wide Web. In Alex Kirlik (Ed.) Working with Technology in Mind: Brunswikian Resources for Cognitive Science and Engineering. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Pirolli, P. L. & Fu, W-T. (2003)SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web. Ninth International Conference on User Modeling, Johnstown, PA .

Fu, W.-T., Pirolli, P. (in press), SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information-Seeking Behavior in the World Wide Web. Human-Computer Interaction.

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