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. (from the article)
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3478
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