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Depth- and Breadth-first Processing of Search Result Lists
By: Kerstin Klöckner, Nadine Wirschum, and Anthony
Jameson (2004)
Extended Abstracts for CHI'04, Vienna.
Abstract: A good deal of
research has looked at the question of how to facilitate the
processing of search result lists such as those of web search
engines. Typically, aspects of the user's behavior such as
the opening of documents and overall search times have been
recorded. But a more basic question has received less attention:
In what order do users look at the entries in a search result
list? In particular, the usual design of such lists suggests
a strictly depth-first strategy: The user examines each entry
in the list in turn, starting from the top, and decides immediately
whether to open the document in question. But a more breadth-first
strategy is also possible: The user looks ahead at a number
of list entries and then revisits the most promising ones
to open the documents. The extent to which users follow such
a strategy can be determined only through eye tracking. The
present abstract summarizes some recent relevant results that
were obtained in the context of two experiments that also
investigated other issues.
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BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{KlöcknerWJ04,
year = {2004},
author = {{Kl\"{o}ckner}, Kerstin and {Wirschum}, Nadine
and {Jameson}, Anthony},
title = {Depth- and Breadth-First Processing of Search Result
Lists},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts for CHI'04},
address = {Vienna}}
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