Supporting Visual Searchers in Processing Search Results

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore alternative ways to visualise search results for children. We propose a novel search result visualisation using characters. The main idea is to represent each web document as a cartoon style character where a character visually provides clues about the webpage’s content. The goal we want to achieve with this approach is twofold:We aim at supporting children in processing the search results and provide appropriate relevance cues (relevance judgement support, cf. Section 7.1). Furthermore, we want to provide children with language support (cf. Section 7.1). Visual clues in search results can support children who have difficulties processing textual information. They are also important because children prefer visual clues when processing the search results (see Chapter 6).