Search User Interface Design for Children: Challenges and Solutions

2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval

Tatiana Gossen ; Marcus Nitsche ; Andreas Nürnberger

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In this paper we describe the main challenges in designing search user interfaces for children. Young users require emotional sup- port, language support, memory and cognitive support, interaction support and support to judge document relevance. We discuss pos- sible solutions for each challenge. We also present a working pro- totype of a web search interface whose main target group are users of primary school age. Our interface is colourful and voice sup- ported, contains possibilities for both searching through text in- put and browsing in menu categories, has a guidance avatar for emotional support and a result storage functionality to support chil-