A comparative study of online news retrieval and presentation strategies

Morrison, S. and Jose, J.M. (2004) A comparative study of online news retrieval and presentation strategies. In: IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, Miami, Florida, 13-15 December 2004, pp. 403-409. ISBN 9780769522173 (doi: 10.1109/MMSE.2004.4)

Abstract

We introduce a news retrieval system on which we evaluated three alternative presentation strategies for online news retrieval. We used a user-oriented and task-oriented evaluation framework. The interfaces studied were Image, giving a grid of thumbnails for each story together with query-based summaries presented as tooltips, Summary, which displayed the summary information alongside each thumbnail, and Cluster, which grouped similar stories together and used the same display format as Image. The evaluation showed that the Summary Interface was preferred to the Image Interface, and that the Cluster Interface was helpful to users with a set task to complete. The implications of this study are also discussed in this paper.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Jose, Professor Joemon
• Authors: Morrison, S., and Jose, J.M.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
• ISBN: 9780769522173
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2004 IEEE Computer Society
• First Published: First published in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher