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<br> This book significantly deepens our scientific understanding of a class of increasing important human activities. It will become a standard reference for a future research. --John R. Anderson, R. K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University<p><br> Nothing is as practical as a good theory. We need practical techniques beyond mere usability experiments for designing the information machines of the Internet and mobile appliances. In this book, Peter Pirolli supplies such a theory, driving the program to have a supporting science of HCI forward to the next plane: from mechanistic theories based on the limitations of cognitive mechanisms to an applied science that emphasizes and predicts adaptation to the information environment. In so doing he advances the core theories of information cognition themselves in the tradition of Simon, Newell, Anderson, and Brunswik. --Stuart K. Card, Senior Research Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center, Xer

<br> This book significantly deepens our scientific understanding of a class of increasing important human activities. It will become a standard reference for a future research. --John R. Anderson, R. K. Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University<br> Nothing is as practical as a good theory. We need practical techniques beyond mere usability experiments for designing the information machines of the Internet and mobile appliances. In this book, Peter Pirolli supplies such a theory, driving the program to have a supporting science of HCI forward to the next plane: from mechanistic theories based on the limitations of cognitive mechanisms to an applied science that emphasizes and predicts adaptation to the information environment. In so doing he advances the core theories of information cognition themselves in the tradition of Simon, Newell, Anderson, and Brunswik. --Stuart K. Card, Senior Research Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox

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Peter Pirolli is a Research Fellow in the User Interface Research Area at the Palo Alto Research Center where he has been pursuing studies of human information interaction since 1991. He is an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery Computer-Human Interaction Academy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the National Academy of Education.

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