Sushmita, S., Joho, H., Lalmas, M. et al. (1 more author) (2010) Factors affecting click-through behavior in aggregated search interfaces. In: Huang, J., Koudas, N., Jones, G.J.F., Wu, X., Collins-Thompson, K. and An, A., (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management. CIKM 2010, 26-30 Oct 2010, Toronto, Canada. ACM , 519 - 528. ISBN 978-1-4503-0099-5
Abstract
An aggregated search interface is designed to integrate search results from different sources (web, image, video, blog, etc) into a single result page. This paper presents two user studies investigating factors affecting users click-through behavior on aggregated search interfaces. We tested two aggregated search interfaces: one where results from the different sources are blended into a single list (called blended), and another, where results from each source are presented in a separate panel (called non-blended). A total of 1,296 search sessions performed by 48 participants were analysed in our study. Our results suggest that 1) the position of search results is significant only in the blended and not in the non-blended design; 2) participants' click-through behavior on videos is different from other sources; and finally 3) capturing a task's orientation towards particular sources is an important factor for further investigation and research.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2010 ACM. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Aggregated search; Result presentation; Task-based user study; Click-through behavior; Blended and non-blended designs. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Information School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 May 2014 10:49 |
Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2022 13:27 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1871437.1871506 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | ACM |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/1871437.1871506 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:78836 |