Using thumbnails to search the Web

Woodruff, Allison; Faulring, Andrew; Rosenholtz, Ruth; Morrsion, Julie; Pirolli, Peter

doi:10.1145/365024.365098

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“…Since then thumbnails have been exploited to support searching and revisiting in many other studies (Woodruff et al, 2001(Woodruff et al, , 2002Dziadosz and Chandrasekar, 2002;Teevan et al, 2009;Aula et al, 2010;Morgan and Wilson, 2010;Jiao et al, 2010;Loumakis et al, 2011;Badesh and Blustein, 2012). Browsers also use thumbnails in a limited fashion to support revisiting.…”

Section: Methods For Presenting a Web Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

Trien

Ruddle

2017

Interact. Comput.

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This research addresses the general topic of "keeping found things found" by investigating difficulties people encounter when revisiting webpages, and designing and evaluating a novel tool that addresses those difficulties. The research focused on occasional revisits -webpages that people have previously visited on only one day, a week or more ago (i.e., neither frequently nor recently). A three-month logging study was combined with a laboratory experiment to identify ten underlying causes of participants' revisiting failure. Overall, 61% of the failures occurred when a webpage had originally been accessed via search results, was on a topic a participant often looked at, or was on a known but large website. Then we designed a novel visual Web history tool to address the causes of failure and implemented it as a Firefox add-on. The tool was evaluated in a three-month field study, helped participants succeed on 96% of revisits, and was also used by some participants to review and reminisce about their "travels" online. Revised versions of the tool have been publicly released as the Firefox add-on MyWebSteps. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS• Identifying the underlying causes of failure when people revisit webpages.• Providing evidence how MyWebSteps helped users overcome those causes.

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Section: Methods For Presenting a Web Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

Trien

Ruddle

2017

Interact. Comput.

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“…The effect remained after controlling for actual performance [F(1,50)=19. 9 There was also an interaction with respect to the participants' confidence with their answers (even after controlling for actual performance). Complex task participants were more confident using KW, while simple task participants were more confident with NL interface [F(1,50) …”

Section: Enjoyment Of Search Experience and Confidence With Answersmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In order to provide better search experience for average participants, researchers have applied natural langauge processing (NLP) technology to building information retrieval systems [2][3][4][5][6]. However, usability studies concerning seeking and interacting with information have focused on keyword search (KW) rather than natural language [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16].…”

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Natural Language Query vs. Keyword Search: Effects of Task Complexity on Search Performance, Participant Perceptions, and Preferences

Wang

Nass

2005

Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2005

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Abstract. A 2x2 mixed design experiment (N=52) was conducted to examine the effects of search interface and task complexity on participants' informationseeking performance and affective experience. Keyword vs. natural language search was the within-participants factor; simple vs. complex tasks was the between-participants factor. There were cross-over interactions such that complextask participants were more successful and thought the tasks were less difficult and reported more enjoyment and confidence when they used keyword search vs. natural language queries, while the opposite was found for simple-task participants. The findings suggest that natural language search is not the panacea for all information retrieval tasks: task complexity is a critical mediator. Implications for interface design and directions for future research are discussed.

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“…Providing users with information about the destination of a hyperlink can improve navigation [9,17,26]. Adding this preview information enhances information scent so users can make more accurate decisions about target pages [25].…”

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“…Adding this preview information enhances information scent so users can make more accurate decisions about target pages [25]. Nielsen [18] suggests that Web designers should strive to improve information scent by using links and category text that accurately characterize the destination page, but others have taken this idea further, considering several different presentation techniques, including thumbnails, symbols, and genre information [16,24,26].…”

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Looking Ahead: A Comparison of Page Preview Techniques for Goal-Directed Web Navigation

Genest

Gutwin

Reetz

et al. 2009

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009

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Abstract. On the World Wide Web, page previews augment hyperlinks to provide extra information about each link's destination. These previews can reduce navigation time and errors in goal-directed navigation tasks when the information provided by the text and context of links is inadequate. A number of different types of page previews have been proposed, and some are already in use; however, little is known about which preview types will consistently help users make good navigation decisions. Our study compares six preview techniques (title, URL, subject category, page genre, genre symbol, and thumbnail), two delivery mechanisms (inline and popup), and two page load times (fast and slow). We found that previews showing the genre of the page (e.g., whether the page is an information page or a search page) yielded significantly faster performance than other preview techniques, and participants also preferred the genre-based previews. Our study is the first to compare the performance of a wide range of page previews in a naturalistic, non-search environment, and provides empirical data that can improve support for goal-directed navigation.

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Using thumbnails to search the Web

Cited by 143 publications

References 5 publications

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

Natural Language Query vs. Keyword Search: Effects of Task Complexity on Search Performance, Participant Perceptions, and Preferences

Looking Ahead: A Comparison of Page Preview Techniques for Goal-Directed Web Navigation

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