Designing Web portals in intergenerational teams: Two prototype portals for elementary school students

Large, Andrew; Beheshti, Jamshid; Nesset, Valerie; Bowler, Leanne

doi:10.1002/asi.20069

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“…Children preferred a portal with information architecture that offered directness (little effort to search quickly), a combination of keyword and natural language searching, browsing through subject hierarchies, metasearch links (link to external search engines), display of retrieved information with informative summaries of the content, and spell-checking techniques. Based on these fi ndings, the researchers have developed two Web portals for elementary school children that are informed by children's affective and cognitive states (Large, Beheshti, Nesset, & Bowler, 2004).…”

Section: Children and Affective System Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Children's Information Seeking and the Design of Digital Interfaces in the Affective Paradigm

Bilal¹

2005

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Research reveals that affect imparts directionality to cognition, which in turn infl uences actions. The role of affect has been well recognized in psychology, computing, education, cognitive science, and neuroscience. However, little recognition has been given to the study of affect in the fi eld of information science. In this article the term "affective paradigm" is introduced based on research grounded in many disciplines. Research that investigated children's affect in seeking information and participating in the design of digital interfaces is reviewed. Unanswered questions in these areas of study are addressed.

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Section: Children and Affective System Designmentioning

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Children's Information Seeking and the Design of Digital Interfaces in the Affective Paradigm

Bilal¹

2005

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“…For example, Druin (1996Druin ( , 1999Druin ( , 2002; Bilal (2000Bilal ( , 2002a; Hanna, Risden, and Alexander (1997) ;Hanna, Risden, Czerwinski, and Alexander (1999); Kafai (1999), Large, Beheshti, and Rahman (2002) ;Large, Beheshti, Nesset, and Bowler (2004);and Large, Nesset, Beheshti, and Bowler (in press) all have advocated a childoriented approach to design. They argue that children have a lot to offer in the design process as a whole and that it is advisable to include them in it.…”

Section: Designing For Children and Children As Designersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interface Design, Web Portals, and Children

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Beheshti²

2005

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Children seek information in order to complete school projects on a wide variety of topics, as well as to support their various leisure activities. Such information can be found in print documents, but increasingly young people are turning to the Web to meet their information needs. In order to exploit this resource, however, children must be able to search or browse digital information through the intermediation of an interface. In particular, they must use Webbased portals that in most cases have been designed for adult users. Guidelines for interface design are not hard to fi nd, but typically they also postulate adult rather than juvenile users. The authors discuss their own research work that has focused upon what young people themselves have to say about the design of portal interfaces. They conclude that specifi c interface design guidelines are required for young users rather than simply relying upon general design guidelines, and that in order to formulate such guidelines it is necessary to actively include the young people themselves in this process.

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“…The database of links was initially created for History Trek (http://www.historytrek.ca), a children's portal on Canadian history [64]. Based on one of the suggestions made by children, all the websites were classified by the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system to organize the collection similar to a typical public or school library.…”

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confidence: 99%