Search Engines for Children: Search User Interfaces and Information-Seeking Behaviour

✍ Scribed by Tatiana Gossen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The doctoral thesis of Tatiana Gossen formulates criteria and guidelines on how to design the user interfaces of search engines for children. In her work, the author identifies the conceptual challenges based on own and previous user studies and addresses the changing characteristics of the users by providing a means of adaptation. Additionally, a novel type of search result visualisation for children with cartoon style characters is developed taking children’s preference for visual information into account.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIII
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Information Retrieval for Young Users....Pages 9-37
State of the Art....Pages 39-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Usability of Existing Search Engines for Young Users....Pages 65-78
Large-scale Analysis of Children’s Queries and Search Interactions....Pages 79-85
Differences in Usability and Perception of Targeted Web Search Engines between Children and Adults....Pages 87-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Search User Interface Design for Children....Pages 115-139
Addressing User Diversity....Pages 141-174
Supporting Visual Searchers in Processing Search Results....Pages 175-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Conclusion....Pages 203-209
Open Research Issues....Pages 211-215
Back Matter....Pages 217-283

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Storage and Retrieval