ASIST2010 - The Revisit Rack - Group Web Search Thumbnails

Editor's Notes

1. actually 3rd year undergraduate to test a hypothesis
2. if honest - had chats about this *kind* of idea with friends at MSR once
5. flirting with the idea for ages
8. does it for you, if you really want it by default
11. improved both finding and re-finding
12. visual snippets can be smaller, and reveal content work well for searching and re-finding
13. re-finding - woodruff et al 2001, teevan et al, 2009, etc 50% - tauscher & greenberg 1997, and 80% - cockburn and mckenzie 2001 - people re-find rather than book mark etc (teevan again) pic faster than text (discussed by woodruff 2001) - also zheng’s chi 2009 paper (judgements)
14. Yahoo BOSS + ShrinkTheWeb API should make optimal use of thumbnails + ideally shown during re-finding + grouped for quick comparison + all at top - so can judge quickly then search otherwise - dont have to scroll + Kaasten at al said 200px best for recognition - did 8 to page to fit - but less results above fold - also...
15. this didnt look the best - acknowledging limitations - bit unblanaced
17. lookup - population of brazil subjective - choose jewelry A-B were counterbalanced
18. well done to 3rd year
20. nothing really significant. obviously a small study - maybe only a pilot study at best only significant trend here is the diff in the subjective finding. where people seemed to be doing the judgement thing but did get lots of insight into why possibly type II error - because of low #Ps
21. the Revisit Rack was fast and efficient if the result was easily recognizable on that page of results spatial disconnect
23. might want to study the impact of thumbnails on exploratory search although could be more to do with the visual nature - couldn tell if judging website, or jewelry