What is known about the impact of impairments on information seeking and searching?

G Berget, A MacFarlane - Journal of the Association for …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Information seeking and access are essential for users in all walks of life, from addressing
personal needs such as finding flights to locating information needed to complete work …

Perspectives of Neurodiverse Participants in Interactive Information Retrieval

L Sitbon, G Berget, M Brereton - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
This monograph offers a survey of work to date to inform how interactions in information
retrieval systems could afford inclusion of users who are neurodiverse. This existing work is …

Dyslexia: a bibliometric and visualization analysis

Y Wu, Y Cheng, X Yang, W Yu, Y Wan - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by an impaired ability to understand written and printed
words or phrases. Epidemiological longitudinal data show that dyslexia is highly prevalent …

Algorithmic power and African indigenous languages: search engine autocomplete and the global multilingual Internet

P Chonka, S Diepeveen, Y Haile - Media, Culture & Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Predictive language technologies–such as Google Search's Autocomplete–constitute forms
of algorithmic power that reflect and compound global power imbalances between Western …

Not just algorithms: Strategically addressing consumer impacts in information retrieval

MD Ekstrand, L Beattie, MS Pera, H Cramer - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Information Retrieval (IR) systems have a wide range of impacts on consumers. We
offer maps to help identify goals IR systems could—or should—strive for, and guide the …

[HTML][HTML] Studies on spelling in the context of dyslexia: a literature review

L Cidrim, F Madeiro - Revista CEFAC, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
This paper aimed at reviewing the literature related to national and international research on
spelling difficulties by dyslexics and identifying the intervention approaches performed with …

Responsible epistemic technologies: A social-epistemological analysis of autocompleted web search

B Miller, I Record - New Media & Society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Information providing and gathering increasingly involve technologies like search engines,
which actively shape their epistemic surroundings. Yet, a satisfying account of the epistemic …

WCAG and dyslexia—Improving the search function of websites for users with dyslexia (without making it worse for everyone else)

D Wessel, AK Kennecke, M Heine - Proceedings of Mensch und …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Interaction becomes increasingly digital, including interactions with public authorities,
requiring websites to be accessible for all. The strong focus on written words in digital …

Modelling the information seeking and searching behaviour of users with impairments: are existing models applicable?

G Berget, A MacFarlane, N Pharo - Journal of Documentation, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose A substantial number of models have been developed over the years, with the
purpose of describing the information seeking and searching of people in various user …

Assessing the readability of web search results for searchers with dyslexia

A Fourney, M Ringel Morris, A Ali… - The 41st International …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Standards organizations,(eg, the World Wide Web Consortium), are placing increased
importance on the cognitive accessibility of online systems, including web search. Previous …