HCI 454

Spring 2017

Craig Miller

Weekly Notes

Assignments

Information Foraging Theory

Terms

  1. Information scent (aka relevance)
  2. Rational analysis
  3. Bounded rationality
See Chin et al. IF article for concrete demonstration.

Discussion questions

  • What page elements show scent?
  • How could you measure scent?
  • How does information foraging theory explain why people leave pages? Why people miss content?