Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Bringing order to the Web: automatically categorizing search results
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Do thumbnail previews help users make better relevance decisions about web search results?
SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A task-oriented study on the influencing effects of query-biased summarisation in web searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How users assess web pages for information seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using top-ranking sentences to facilitate effective information access: Book Reviews
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
An evaluation framework of user interaction with metadata surrogates
Journal of Information Science
User interaction with novel web search interfaces
OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Progress in information retrieval
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A user interface guide for web search systems
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
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Presentation of search results in Web-based information retrieval (IR) systems has been dominated by a textual form of information such as the title, snippet, URL, and/or file type of retrieved documents. On the other hand, document's visual aspects such as the layout, colour scheme, or presence of images have been studied in a limited context with regard to their effectiveness of search result presentation. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of textual and visual forms of document summaries as the additional document surrogate in the search result presentation. In our study, a sentence-based summarisation technique was used to create a textual document summary, and the thumbnail image of web pages was used to represent a visual summary. The experimental results suggest that both have the cases where the additional elements contributed to a positive effect not only in users' relevance assessment but also in query re/formulation. The results also suggest that the two forms of document summary are likely to have different contexts to facilitate user's search experience. Therefore, our study calls for further research on adaptive models of IR systems to make use of their advantages in appropriate contexts.