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EmSe: initial evaluation of a child-friendly medical search system

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Frans van der SluisAuthors Info & Claims

IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

Pages 282 - 285

https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362775

Published: 21 August 2012 Publication History

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When undergoing medical treatment in combination with extended stays in hospitals, children have been frequently found to develop an interest in their condition and the course of treatment. A natural means of searching for related information would be to use a web search engine. The medical domain, however, imposes several key challenges on young and inexperienced searchers, such as difficult terminology, potentially frightening topics or non-objective information offered by lobbyists or pharmaceutical companies. To address these problems, we present the design and usability study of EmSe, a search service for children in a hospital environment.

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EmSe: initial evaluation of a child-friendly medical search system
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

August 2012

347 pages

ISBN:9781450312820

DOI:10.1145/2362724

General Chairs:
Jaap Kamps,
Wessel Kraaij,
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Norbert Fuhr
University of Duisburg-Essen

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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 21 August 2012

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University of Amsterdam

IIiX'12: Information Interaction in Context: 2012

August 21 - 24, 2012

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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