TY - GEN
T1 - Visual Exploration of Health Information for Children
AU - van der Sluis, Frans
AU - Duarte Torres, Sergio
AU - Hiemstra, Djoerd
AU - van Dijk, Betsy
AU - Kruisinga, Frea
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Children experience several difficulties retrieving information using current Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Particularly, children struggle to find the right keywords to construct queries given their lack of domain knowledge. This problem is even more critical in the case of the specialized health domain. In this work we present a novel method to address this problem using a cross-media search interface in which the textual data is searched through visual images. This solution aims to solve the recall and recognition problem which is salient for health information, by replacing the need for a vocabulary with the easy task of recognising the different body parts.
AB - Children experience several difficulties retrieving information using current Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Particularly, children struggle to find the right keywords to construct queries given their lack of domain knowledge. This problem is even more critical in the case of the specialized health domain. In this work we present a novel method to address this problem using a cross-media search interface in which the textual data is searched through visual images. This solution aims to solve the recall and recognition problem which is salient for health information, by replacing the need for a vocabulary with the easy task of recognising the different body parts.
KW - Information retrieval
KW - children
KW - cross-media search interface
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 788
BT - European Conference on Information Retrieval
ER -