Presenting and visualizing results on an image retrieval user interface.

The volume of images available online has increased significantly but the choices offered by image retrieval systems have not kept pace. We describe the design and evaluation of a `high density' image search interface focusing on the results pages. We quantitatively and qualitatively compared image presentation on a high density interface with a traditional image search interface. Our results show that users had major problems with high-density interfaces for images due to information overload. We point to further work which could improve the user experience.