VDMs for finding and re-finding web search results

Badesh, Hoda; Blustein, Jamie

doi:10.1145/2132176.2132232

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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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“…Re-finding is a common occurrence when using search engines, where the user issues a query just in order to find a web page that she has already read previously [14]. Therefore, for each query, this approach (denoted as FT-Click) assigns personalized scores to those pages clicked by the user among return results.…”

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Search Personalization via Aggregation of Multidimensional Evidence About User Interests

Ghorab

Lawless

2015

Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

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Abstract.A core aspect of search personalization is inferring the user's search interests. Different approaches may consider different aspects of user information and may have different interpretations of the notion of interest. This may lead to learning disparate characteristics of a user. Although search engines collect a variety of information about their users, the following question remains unanswered: to what extent can personalized search systems harness these information sources to capture multiple views of the user's interests, and adapt the search accordingly? To answer this question, this paper proposes a hybrid approach for search personalization. The advantage of this approach is that it can flexibly combine multiple sources of user information, and incorporate multiple aspects of user interests. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for search personalization.

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VDMs for finding and re-finding web search results

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

MyWebSteps: Aiding Revisiting with a Visual Web History

Search Personalization via Aggregation of Multidimensional Evidence About User Interests

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