Print Email Facebook Twitter Users and Contemporary SERPs Title Users and Contemporary SERPs: A (Re-)Investigation: Examining User Interactions and Experiences Author Roy, N. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Maxwell, D.M. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Hauff, C. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Date 2022 Abstract The Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has evolved significantly over the last two decades, moving away from the simple ten blue links paradigm to considerably more complex presentations that contain results from multiple verticals and granularities of textual information. Prior works have investigated how user interactions on the SERP are influenced by the presence or absence of heterogeneous content (e.g., images, videos, or news content), the layout of the SERP (\emphlist vs. grid layout), and task complexity. In this paper, we reproduce the user studies conducted in prior works---specifically those of~\citetarguello2012task and~\citetsiu2014first ---to explore to what extent the findings from research conducted five to ten years ago still hold today as the average web user has become accustomed to SERPs with ever-increasing presentational complexity. To this end, we designed and ran a user study with four different SERP interfaces:(i) ~\empha heterogeneous grid ;(ii) ~\empha heterogeneous list ;(iii) ~\empha simple grid ; and(iv) ~\empha simple list. We collected the interactions of $41$ study participants over $12$ search tasks for our analyses. We observed that SERP types and task complexity affect user interactions with search results. We also find evidence to support most (6 out of 8) observations from~\citearguello2012task,siu2014first indicating that user interactions with different interfaces and to solve tasks of different complexity have remained mostly similar over time. Subject Human Computer InteractionInteractive Information RetrievalSearch InterfacesSearch TasksReproducibility To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:db89b5d7-3d15-4608-8efa-92b992a934fc DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3531719 Publisher ACM DL ISBN 978-1-4503-8732-3 Source SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Event 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2022-07-11 → 2022-07-15, Madrid, Spain Series SIGIR 2022 - Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2022 N. Roy, D.M. Maxwell, C. Hauff Files PDF 3477495.3531719.pdf 6.32 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:db89b5d7-3d15-4608-8efa-92b992a934fc/datastream/OBJ/view