This document discusses two studies on measuring user attention and satisfaction in mobile search. The first study found that viewport and page metrics can indicate whether a knowledge graph result is relevant and that users are not satisfied when an irrelevant knowledge graph is shown. The second study found that viewport time closely correlates with gaze time, users prefer the top half of the mobile screen, and that the "short scroll effect" influences attention patterns differently between desktop and mobile.
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1. Towards Better Measurement of
Attention and Satisfaction
in Mobile Search
Dmitry Lagun, Chih-Hung Hsieh,
Dale Webster, Vidhya Navalpakkam
3. Mobile is popular!
? 25% of Web page visits come from mobile
[Statcounter.com, 2014]
? Mobile browsing grew five fold since 2010 (5%)
[Statcounter.com, 2014]
? One in every 5 search queries is issued from a
mobile device
[RKG Digital Marketing Report, 2013]
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5. Satisfaction with Rich Results on Mobile:
Background
? Long history of using clicks for measurement of search
satisfaction and result relevance
[Joachims et al., SIGIR 2005; Agichtein et al., SIGIR 2006]
? Result relevance and implicit indicators (mouse cursor
hover, touch & swipe)
[Huang et al., CHI 2011; Lagun et al., SIGIR 2011;
Guo et al., SIGIR 2013]
? Rich Answers do not require to click and mouse hovers
do not exist on mobile ?
¨C What other implicit metrics can we use to infer result
relevance/satisfaction without clicks/hovers?
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6. User Study Design
? Two Factor (within Subject)
¨C Relevance
¨C Presence
? 20 Search Tasks
? Users were asked to provide explicit
satisfaction score for each task (1-7 scale)
KG Relevant
KG Not
Relevant
KG Present 5 Tasks
5 Tasks
KG Absent
5 Tasks 5 Tasks
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7. User Study Details
? Participants
¨C 24 users (diverse background, age, occupation)
? Mobile Eye Tracker Setup
? Calibration Directly
on Phone Screen
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8. Can Implicit User Metrics Indicate
Answer Relevance?
? Page and Task metrics
¨C Time on SERP
¨C Number of Scrolls
¨C Time on Task
? Gaze Metrics
¨C Time on Rich Result (and %)
¨C Total Time below Rich Result (and %)
? Viewport Metrics
¨C Time on Rich Result (and %)
¨C Total Time below Rich Result (and %)
KnowledgeGraphResult
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10. KG is Relevant ? Faster Search
(answer is found in KG without a click)
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11. No Impact on User Satisfaction
when KG is Not Relevant!
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12. Gaze Metrics vs. KG Relevance
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Relevant Not
Relevant
More Time
Below the
KG Result
13. %Viewport Time Below
vs. KG Relevance
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0
5
10
15
20
25
30
Not Relevant Relevant
%ViewportTimeBelowKG
More time on results below
Not Relevant KG
14. Satisfaction with Rich Results:
Summary
? We can use Page and Viewport metrics to
infer KG relevance and satisfaction
? No impact on user satisfaction when Not
Relevant KG is shown
? Users view more results below the KG, when
it is Not Relevant
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16. Attention Measurement in Search:
Background
? Eye Tracking ¨C accurate, but limited in scale
[Granka et al., WWW 2004; Buscher et al., SIGIR, CHI 2008-
2010]
? Mouse Cursor Tracking ¨C less accurate, but
scalable ?
[Huang et al., CHI 2011, 2012; Lagun et al., SIGIR 2011; Guo et
al., CHI 2010, WWW 2012; Navalpakkam et al., WWW 2013]
? Viewport Tracking ¨C accurate (???), scalable
(on mobile)
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17. Viewport Time Calculation: Primer
? Display Time = 10 sec
? ViewportTime(R1) = ?
? Coverage
¨C % of screen area occupied by the result
(e.g. Coverage(KG) > Coverage(R1))
? Exposure
¨C % of result area visible on the screen
(e.g. Exposure (R2) < 1.0)
? ViewportTime(R) = DisplayTime *
Coverage(R) * Exposure(R)
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KG
R1
R2
18. %Gaze Time
%ViewportTime
ViewportTime
Gaze Time
Can we use Viewport Time
to measure time spent on each result?
Pearson R = 0.57 Pearson R = 0.69
one search result
Correlation is high ? can use Viewport Time to accurately
measure time spent on individual search result at scale
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24. Do users have position preference
when reading on a mobile phone?
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25. Conclusions
? Viewport and Page metrics can be used to
measure Rich Answer Relevance and
Satisfaction
? Viewport time provides accurate (R=0.69)
estimate on time spent on search result
? Users prefer to position content on top half of
the phone¡¯s screen
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26. Results Summary
Attention MeasurementSatisfaction with
Rich Results
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%Gaze Time
%ViewportTime
Viewport ¡Ö Gaze
(on mobile)
Pearson R = 0.69
Top half of the
screen receives
more Attention
¡°Short-Scroll¡±
effect
Granka et al., WWW 2004
DesktopMobile
Relevant Not Relevant
More results
are viewed if
Answer is Not
Relevant
No Impact on
User Satisfaction
when KG is Not
Relevant!