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

Carsten Eickhoff; Leif Azzopardi; Djoerd Hiemstra; Franciska de Jong; Arjen de Vries; Doug Dowie; Sergio Duarte; Richard Glassey; Karl Gyllstrom; Frea Kruisinga; Kelly Marshall; Sien Moens; Tamara Polajnar; Frans van der Sluis

doi:10.1145/2362724.2362775

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

Carsten Eickhoff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong, Arjen de Vries, Doug Dowie, Sergio Duarte, Richard Glassey, Karl Gyllstrom, Frea Kruisinga, Kelly Marshall, Sien Moens, Tamara Polajnar, Frans van der Sluis

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IIIX '12 Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Pages	282-285
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362775
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2012
Externally published	Yes

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web search
medical information need

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Eickhoff, C., Azzopardi, L., Hiemstra, D., de Jong, F., de Vries, A., Dowie, D., Duarte, S., Glassey, R., Gyllstrom, K., Kruisinga, F., Marshall, K., Moens, S., Polajnar, T., & van der Sluis, F. (2012). EmSe: initial evaluation of a child-friendly medical search system. In IIIX '12 Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp. 282-285). https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362775

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