Information foraging in information access environments
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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
Visual information foraging in a focus + context visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cognitive walkthrough for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The bloodhound project: automating discovery of web usability issues using the InfoScentπ simulator
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ACM SIGIR Forum
Effects of scent and breadth on use of site-specific search on e-commerce Web sites
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
The concept of relevance in IR
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information search: the intersection of visual and semantic space
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Looking for a picture: an analysis of everyday image information searching
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
What are you looking for?: an eye-tracking study of information usage in web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
Information Foraging Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information
SNIF-ACT: a cognitive model of user navigation on the world wide web
Human-Computer Interaction
SNIF-ACT: a model of information foraging on the world wide web
UM'03 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on User modeling
The good, the bad, and the random: an eye-tracking study of ad quality in web search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Visual summarization of web pages
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The effects on topic familiarity on online search behaviour and use of relevance criteria
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Factors affecting aggregated search coherence and search behavior
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Augmenting web search surrogates with images
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
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Users are confronted with an overwhelming amount of web pages when they look for information on the Internet. Current search engines already aid the user in their information seeking tasks by providing textual results but adding images to results pages could further help the user in judging the relevance of a result. We investigated this problem from an Information Foraging perspective and we report on two empirical studies that focused on the information scent of images. Our results show that images have their own distinct "smell" which is not as strong as that of text. We also found that combining images and text cues leads to a stronger overall scent. Surprisingly, when images were added to search engine results pages, this did not lead our participants to behave significantly differently in terms of effectiveness or efficiency. Even when we added images that could confuse the participants' scent, this had no significantly detrimental impact on their behaviour. However, participants expressed a preference for results pages which included images. We discuss potential challenges and point to future research to ensure the success of adding images to textual results in search engine results pages.