@inproceedings{9a9a7da8088c4c4ab33623a2e8320538,
title = "Displaying relevance scores for search results",
abstract = "Internet search engines typically compute a relevance score for webpages given the query terms, and then rank the pages by decreasing relevance scores. The popular search engines do not, however, present the relevance scores that were computed during this process. We suggest that these relevance scores may contain information that can help users make conscious decisions. In this paper we evaluate in a user study how users react to the display of such scores. The results indicate that users understand graphical displays of relevance, and make decisions based on these scores. Our results suggest that in the context of exploratory search, relevance scores may cause users to explore more search results.",
keywords = "Graphical displays, Relevance metric, Search, User interfaces",
author = "Guy Shani and Noam Tractinski",
year = "2013",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1145/2484028.2484112",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450320344",
series = "SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval",
pages = "901--904",
booktitle = "SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval",
note = "36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013 ; Conference date: 28-07-2013 Through 01-08-2013",
}