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Peter Pirolli
Researcher at PARC
Publications - 163
Citations - 15527
Peter Pirolli is an academic researcher from PARC. The author has contributed to research in topics: Information foraging & Sensemaking. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 158 publications receiving 15019 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Pirolli include Xerox & Carnegie Mellon University.
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Want to be Retweeted? Large Scale Analytics on Factors Impacting Retweet in Twitter Network
TL;DR: It is found that, amongst content features, URLs and hashtags have strong relationships with retweetability and the number of followers and followees as well as the age of the account seem to affect retweetability, while, interestingly, thenumber of past tweets does not predict retweetability of a user's tweet.
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A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies
TL;DR: The essence of this scheme is to lay out the hierarchy in a uniform way on a hyperbolic plane an d map this plane onto a circular display region that supports a smooth blending between focus and context, as well as continuous redirection of the focus.
Patent
System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets
Mark J. Stefik,Peter Pirolli +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a system for controlling the distribution and use of digital works using digital tickets is presented, where a digital ticket is used to entitle the ticket holder to exercise some usage right with respect to a digital work.
Patent
System for controlling the distribution and use of digital works having a fee reporting mechanism
TL;DR: A fee accounting mechanism for reporting fees associated with the distribution and use of digital works is proposed in this paper, where usage rights and fees are attached to digital works and usage rights define how the digital work may be used or further distributed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Strong Regularities in World Wide Web Surfing
TL;DR: A model that assumes that users make a sequence of decisions to proceed to another page, continuing as long as the value of the current page exceeds some threshold, yields the probability distribution for the number of pages that a user visits within a given Web site.