Abstract

In this Chapter, a study about the usability assessment of existing search engines for young users is described. There are several IR systems for children that are publicly available (see Section 3.3). In June 2011, we conducted a study to analyse the usability of search engines for children. The goal was to verify whether current search engines are appropriate for the motor and cognitive skills of children. To this end, we analysed twelve search engines whose main target group are children. We first choose formal criteria based on the results of previous studies and recommendations in this field (see Section 2.2 and 3.1). Afterwards, we analysed the search engines and evaluated the results.

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