Search engines for children: search user interfaces and information-seeking behaviour.

摘要

This book focuses on a very important educational subject matter: the proper usage of search engines for children. In order to approach this, one has to study the behavior of children when querying a search engine and the selection process of which result to use. The author reports on her thesis research in this treatise and expands on it by citing the most current literature on the subject matter. She formulates criteria for the study and provides guidelines for creating an appropriate user interface for children. These are based on her own and prior user studies. A recommendation of the text is to incorporate more visual and multimedia aids into the search process, because children respond better to visual rather than language cues.