Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Revisitation patterns in World Wide Web navigation
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Interface and data architecture for query preview in networked information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Task-oriented world wide web retrieval by document type classification
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Hierarchical classification of Web content
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Concepts for improved visualization of Web link attributes
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Using thumbnails to search the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using information scent to model user information needs and actions and the Web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MetaSpider: meta-searching and categorization on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A pilot study to examine the mobility problems of visually impaired users travelling the web
ACM SIGCAPH Computers and the Physically Handicapped
Using urls and table layout for web classification tasks
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Stylistic and lexical co-training for web block classification
Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM international workshop on Web information and data management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The impact of task on the usage of web browser navigation mechanisms
GI '06 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006
Web page revisitation revisited: implications of a long-term click-stream study of browser usage
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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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.