TY - GEN
T1 - Guiding the selection of child spellchecker suggestions using audio and visual cues
AU - Downs, Brody
AU - Shukla, Aprajita
AU - Krentz, Mikey
AU - Pera, Maria Soledad
AU - Wright, Katherine Landau
AU - Kennington, Casey
AU - Fails, Jerry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/6/21
Y1 - 2020/6/21
N2 - Spellchecking functionality embedded in existing search tools can assist children by offering a list of spelling alternatives when a spelling error is detected. Unfortunately, children tend to generally select the first alternative when presented with a list of options, as opposed to the one that matches their intent. In this paper, we describe a study we conducted with 191 children ages 6-12 in order to offer empirical evidence of: (1) their selection habits when identifying spelling suggestions that match the word they meant to type, and (2) the degree of influence multimodal cues, i.e., synthesized speech and images, have in prompting children to select the correct spelling suggestion. The results from our study reveal that multimodal cues, primarily synthesized speech, have a positive impact on the children's ability to identify their intended word from a list of spelling suggestions.
AB - Spellchecking functionality embedded in existing search tools can assist children by offering a list of spelling alternatives when a spelling error is detected. Unfortunately, children tend to generally select the first alternative when presented with a list of options, as opposed to the one that matches their intent. In this paper, we describe a study we conducted with 191 children ages 6-12 in order to offer empirical evidence of: (1) their selection habits when identifying spelling suggestions that match the word they meant to type, and (2) the degree of influence multimodal cues, i.e., synthesized speech and images, have in prompting children to select the correct spelling suggestion. The results from our study reveal that multimodal cues, primarily synthesized speech, have a positive impact on the children's ability to identify their intended word from a list of spelling suggestions.
KW - multimedia cues
KW - search engine
KW - spelling
KW - user studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85087396664&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3392063.3394390
DO - 10.1145/3392063.3394390
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85087396664
T3 - Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
SP - 398
EP - 408
BT - Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
T2 - 2020 Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020
Y2 - 21 June 2020 through 24 June 2020
ER -