scholarly journals Preliminary Evaluation of Interactive Search Engine Interface for Visually Impaired Users

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 45061-45070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aboubakr Aqle ◽  
Kamran Khowaja ◽  
Dena Al-Thani
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Interactive Search

scholarly journals Can search result summaries enhance the web search efficiency and experiences of the visually impaired users?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aboubakr Aqle ◽  
Dena Al-Thani ◽  
Ali Jaoua
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Formal Concept ◽  
Search Efficiency ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Search Tasks ◽  
Google Search

AbstractThere are limited studies that are addressing the challenges of visually impaired (VI) users when viewing search results on a search engine interface by using a screen reader. This study investigates the effect of providing an overview of search results to VI users. We present a novel interactive search engine interface called InteractSE to support VI users during the results exploration stage in order to improve their interactive experience and web search efficiency. An overview of the search results is generated using an unsupervised machine learning approach to present the discovered concepts via a formal concept analysis that is domain-independent. These concepts are arranged in a multi-level tree following a hierarchical order and covering all retrieved documents that share maximal features. The InteractSE interface was evaluated by 16 legally blind users and compared with the Google search engine interface for complex search tasks. The evaluation results were obtained based on both quantitative (as task completion time) and qualitative (as participants’ feedback) measures. These results are promising and indicate that InteractSE enhances the search efficiency and consequently advances user experience. Our observations and analysis of the user interactions and feedback yielded design suggestions to support VI users when exploring and interacting with search results.

Addressing Challenges in Web Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Guercio ◽  
Kathleen A. Stirbens ◽  
Joseph Williams ◽  
Charles Haiber
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Preliminary Test ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Waves

Searching for relevant information on the web is an important aspect of distance learning. This activity is a challenge for visually impaired distance learners. While sighted people have the ability to filter information in a fast and non sequential way, blind persons rely on tools that process the information in a sequential way. Learning is slowed by screen readers which do not interact well with web pages. This paper introduces WAVES, a tool for the fast retrieval of information in a web page for blind and visually impaired people. The paper describes the WAVES prototype, a system that performs a page restructuring of webpages. The system analyzes webpages, identifies elements of interests from a webpage, evaluates their importance by using semantic information and visual cues, sorts them by importance and uses them to restructure the webpage so that data from the original webpage are presented to the reader in a concise format. A preliminary evaluation test of the prototype system has been performed with a sample set of users. The results of the preliminary test show an increase in speed and accuracy when the WAVES system has been used.

VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Search Engine for Video Browsing and Retrieval

2016 ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Moumtzidou ◽  
Theodoros Mironidis ◽  
Evlampios Apostolidis ◽  
Foteini Markatopoulou ◽  
Anastasia Ioannidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Video Browsing ◽  
Interactive Search

scholarly journals Competitive Intelligence Task Analysis And Retrieval: An End-User Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Limin Zhang ◽  
Sabah Currim ◽  
Faiz Currim
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Task Analysis ◽  
Task Complexity ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
End User ◽  
Interactive Search ◽  
Public Data

The Internet, as one of the major resources for competitive intelligence (CI), not only provides a large amount of public data but also exposes a variety of business relations that may not otherwise be well-known. However, finding such information can be tedious and time-consuming for end-users without proper tools or expertise. In this paper, we examine the nature of CI tasks, classify and decompose them based on a task complexity theory, and propose norms for a context-based approach to retrieve CI data. We developed a meta-search engine called Competitive Intelligence Task Analysis and Retrieval (CITAR) to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach. The present study provides a framework to further explore the relationships among CI tasks, interactive search, and context-based search systems design.

Addressing Challenges in Web Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired

2014 ◽  
pp. 249-260
Author(s):  
Angela Guercio ◽  
Kathleen A. Stirbens ◽  
Joseph Williams ◽  
Charles Haiber
Keyword(s):  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Preliminary Test ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
The Waves

Searching for relevant information on the web is an important aspect of distance learning. This activity is a challenge for visually impaired distance learners. While sighted people have the ability to filter information in a fast and non sequential way, blind persons rely on tools that process the information in a sequential way. Learning is slowed by screen readers which do not interact well with web pages. This paper introduces WAVES, a tool for the fast retrieval of information in a web page for blind and visually impaired people. The paper describes the WAVES prototype, a system that performs a page restructuring of webpages. The system analyzes webpages, identifies elements of interests from a webpage, evaluates their importance by using semantic information and visual cues, sorts them by importance and uses them to restructure the webpage so that data from the original webpage are presented to the reader in a concise format. A preliminary evaluation test of the prototype system has been performed with a sample set of users. The results of the preliminary test show an increase in speed and accuracy when the WAVES system has been used.

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