Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Information Hunters (03 Oct 2004) The search for and digestion of information on the web is one of the daily tasks to which we devote more time in Internet and it’s, probably, among the ones that cause most difficulties too. One of the most interesting topics is, consequently, which strategies may be more appropriate in order to improve that search and how to implement them in the systems that serve and gather said information. There exists a very interesting approach from the conceptual standpoint: the Information Foraging theory. This theory has its origins in the early 90s when Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card were studying human behaviour when doing intensive information search. Article URL: http://www.infovis.net/printMag.php?num=153&lang=2 Read 159 more articles from InfoVis sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Presidential Campaign Advertising on the Internet     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy