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Search Engines for Children

Search User Interfaces and Information-Seeking Behaviour

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  • Study in computer science and media design
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
  2. Introduction

    • Tatiana Gossen
    Pages 1-5
  3. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Information Retrieval for Young Users

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 9-37
    3. State of the Art

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 39-62
  4. Tackling the Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. Search User Interface Design for Children

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 115-139
    3. Addressing User Diversity

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 141-174
  5. Conclusion and Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
    2. Conclusion

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 203-209
    3. Open Research Issues

      • Tatiana Gossen
      Pages 211-215
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 217-283

About this book

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.

Reviews

“This book focuses on a very important educational subject matter: the proper usage of search engines for children. … The impressive list of 195 references assures the reader that this book is comprehensive; the cataloging of the author’s 15 prior publications and three published studies on the subject matter indicates that she is the right person for the job.” (Michael Goldberg and R. Goldberg, Computing Reviews, January, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Magdeburg, Germany

    Tatiana Gossen

About the author

Tatiana Gossen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg.

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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