Visual Exploration of Health Information for Children

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 -