logo SIGIR 2010 Workshop on Accessible Search Systems
in conjunction with the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
Geneva, 23 July 2010

Program

9.00-9.15 Registration and welcome
9.15-10.15 Keynote (chair: Djoerd Hiemstra)
Searching for the Future: Understanding Children's Challenges, Actions, and Roles in Searching
Allison Druin

10.15-10.45 Coffee break

10.45-12.05 Session 1 Childrens' Information Retrieval (chair: Ian Ruthven)
A Closer Look at Children's Information Retrieval Usage: Towards Child-Centered Relevance
Frans Van der Sluis and Betsy Van Dijk
Assessing Fun: Young Children as Evaluators of Interactive Systems
Yusrita Mohd Yusoff, Monica Landoni and Ian Ruthven
Text Simplification for Children Jan De Belder and Marie-Francine Moens
Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google
Hanna Jochmann-Mannak and Leo Lentz

12.05-14.00 - Lunch

14.00-15.00 Keynote (chair: Pavel Serdyukov)
Toward More Accessible Search
T.V. Raman
15.00-15.40 Session 2 Information Retrieval for Users with Special Requirements (chair: Ian Ruthven)WebMark: A Rapid Internet Browsing Technique for Visually Impaired Web Users
Hesham M. Kamel
The Mediated Information World of Children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Dania Bilal
15.40-16.10 Coffee break
16.10-17.00 Panel (chair: Dania Bilal)
child searching hyperbraille deafmute ict smart software elder