Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Children's use of mouse-based interfaces to control virtual travel
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The Web as a classroom resource: reactions from the users
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Design criteria for children's Web portals: the users speak out
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as web users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Differences in pointing task performance between preschool children and adults using mice
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
The evolution of the international children's digital library searching and browsing interface
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
Drag-and-drop errors in young children's use of the mouse
Interacting with Computers
Children as architects of Web directories: An exploratory study: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How children search the internet with keyword interfaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Search User Interfaces
TeddIR: tangible information retrieval for children
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
A picture is worth a thousand search results: finding child-oriented multimedia results with collAge
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
What are the real differences of children's and adults' web search
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Children's web search with Google: the effectiveness of natural language queries
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
EmSe: initial evaluation of a child-friendly medical search system
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Adaptation of a Search User Interface towards User Needs: A Prototype Study with Children & Adults
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
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This paper describes a new user interface for a web search engine whose main target group are young users. We explain the main challenges for this user interface and discuss design decisions we made. Our interface is audio supported, contains possibilities for both searching through text input and navigating using menu categories, has a guidance figure for emotional support and a result storage functionality to support cognitive recall. It is also colourful which is appreciated by most children. A comparative study with 28 young users was conducted where we compared our user interface with a classic text search user interface provided by most current web search engines. We evaluated what features of both interfaces children like or dislike to further improve the interface.