A picture is worth a thousand search results: finding child-oriented multimedia results with collAge

We present a simple and effective approach to complement search results for children's web queries with child-oriented multimedia results, such as coloring pages and music sheets. Our approach determines appropriate media types for a query by searching Google's database of frequent queries for cooccurrences of a query's terms (e.g., "dinosaurs") with preselected multimedia terms (e.g., "coloring pages"). We show the effectiveness of this approach through an online user evaluation. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.0 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: General General Terms Experimentation, Human Factors Keywords children, Google, query suggestion, Mechanical Turk

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: Karl Gyllstrom, Marie-Francine Moens
• Keywords: Appropriate Media Types, Effective Approach, Human Factors Keywords, Information Technology, SIGIR 2010