Abstract
Typically search engine results (SERs) are presented in a ranked list of decreasing estimated relevance to user queries. While familiar to users, ranked lists do not show inherent connections between SERs, e.g. whether SERs are hyper-linked or authored by the same source. Such potentially useful connections between SERs can be displayed as graphs. We present a preliminary comparative study of ranked lists vs graph visualisations of SERs. Experiments with TREC web search data and a small user study of 10 participants show that ranked lists result in more precise and also faster search sessions than graph visualisations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval co-located with the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (SIGIR 2013) |
| Editors | Max L. Wilson, Tony Russell-Rose , Birger Larsen, Preben Hansen, Kristian Norling |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Pages | 27-30 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 1 Aug 2013 → 1 Aug 2013 Conference number: 3 |
Conference
| Conference | 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval |
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| Number | 3 |
| Country/Territory | Ireland |
| City | Dublin |
| Period | 01/08/2013 → 01/08/2013 |
| Series | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
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| Volume | 1033 |
| ISSN | 1613-0073 |