Search User Interface Design for Children: Challenges and Solutions.
Tatiana Gossen, Marcus Nitsche, Andreas Nürnberger · 2012
In this paper we describe the main challenges in designing search user interfaces for children. Young users require emotional support, language support, memory and cognitive support, interaction support and support to judge document relevance. We discuss possible solutions for each challenge. We also present a working prototype of a web search interface whose main target group are users of primary school age. Our interface is colourful and voice supported, contains possibilities for both searching through text input and browsing in menu categories, has a guidance avatar for emotional support and a result storage functionality to support children’s cognitive recall.