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Do thumbnail previews help users make better relevance decisions about web search results?

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We describe an empirical evaluation of the utility of thumbnail previews in web search results. Results pages were constructed to show text-only summaries, thumbnail previews only, or the combination of text summaries and thumbnail previews. We found that in the combination case, users were able to make more accurate decisions about the potential relevance of results than in either of the other versions, with hardly any increase in speed of processing the page as a whole.

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        SIGIR '02: Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
        August 2002
        478 pages
        ISBN:1581135610
        DOI:10.1145/564376

        Copyright © 2002 ACM

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