An elementary social information foraging model

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 605-614

  Pirolli, Peter ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Social information foraging theory

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FORAGING; INTERACTION DESIGN; PARTICIPATION RATE; SOCIAL INFORMATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84892460195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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