Do users find looking at text more useful than visual representations? A comparison of three search result interfaces

ADCS 2009 - Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 35-42

  Al Maqbali, Hilal ^a   Scholer, Falk ^a   Thom, James A ^a   Wu, Mingfang ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Information retrieval; User studies involving documents; Web documents

Indexed keywords

COMPLETION TIME; EYE-TRACKING; OTHER INTERFACES; SEARCH INTERFACES; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH TASKS; TEXT INFORMATION; TEXTUAL INFORMATION; TOPIC CLUSTERING; USER STUDY; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84872851550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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