Work

Designing Search Engine Result Pages for Immersive Virtual Reality: Insights from Eye-Tracking and User Perception Data

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Extensive research exists on user interactions with search engine result pages (SERPs) in desktop and mobile environments. However, relatively little work has focused on understanding how virtual reality (VR) users interact with SERPs in 3D immersive virtual environments (IVEs). Unlike 2D displays with established paradigms (e.g., ranked lists), 3D IVEs lack standardized methods for presenting search results. This work explores how different information arrangements in 3D virtual space impact users' search behaviors and preferences.

Source: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)

DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3729947

Authors: Austin R. Ward, Bogeum Choi, Robert Capra

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, Universitas Brawijaya

Awards: G5968054408, CAREER: Knowledge Representation and Re-Use for Exploratory and Collaborative Search