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User interaction with novel web search interfaces

Published: 23 November 2009 Publication History

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Search result organisation and presentation is an important component of a Web search system, it can have a substantial impact on the ability of users to find useful information. In this study we compare the effectiveness of three publicly available search interfaces for supporting navigational search tasks. The three interfaces vary primarily in the proportion of visual versus textual cues that are used to display a search result. Our analysis shows that users' search completion time varies greatly among interfaces, and an appropriate combination of textual and visual information leads to shortest search completion time and the least number of wrong answers.

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
November 2009
445 pages
ISBN:9781605588544
DOI:10.1145/1738826
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Published: 23 November 2009

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  1. eye tracking
  2. search result presentation
  3. web search interfaces

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  • (2013)Using eye tracking for evaluating web search interfacesProceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium10.1145/2537734.2537747(2-9)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2013

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