The state of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities: A rapid evidence assessment

S Gartland, P Flynn, MA Carneiro, G Holloway… - Behavioral …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Increased digitisation of day-to-day activities was occurring prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic only accelerated the virtual shift, making web accessibility an urgent issue …

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 …

Generative information systems are great if you can read

A Roegiest, Z Pinkosova - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Generative models, especially in information systems like ChatGPT and Bing Chat, have
become increasingly integral to our daily lives. Their significance lies in their potential to …

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 …

The reading practices of people with neuropsychiatric disabilities: a review of library and information science literature

K Hagberg, K Lundin, A Lundh… - Information …, 2024 - portal.research.lu.se
Introduction. The ability to read and interpret different types of text can be significantly
impacted by neuropsychiatric disabilities, which affect cognitive abilities. This paper …

To infinity and beyond! accessibility is the future for kids' search engines

A Milton, G Allen, MS Pera - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07813, 2021 - arxiv.org
Research in the area of search engines for children remains in its infancy. Seminal works
have studied how children use mainstream search engines, as well as how to design and …

Mobile search made easier: An ability-based mobile search prototype for people with dyslexia

J Reed, A Macfarlane, S Makri - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Although 1 person in 14 has dyslexia, most search interfaces are designed based on a 'one-
size-fits-all'approach, creating inequity for neurodiverse searchers. This is also the case for …

" My words were completely gone." A qualitative study of the information seeking behaviour of people with aphasia

B Kvikne, G Berget - 2022 - oda.oslomet.no
Introduction: Aphasia is an acquired language impairment, which affects the production and
comprehension of speech, reading and writing. Aphasia is associated with great cognitive …

Explicit teaching of searching and sourcing strategies in engineering: insights from an inclusive dyslexia-friendly online EAP course

EV Seiradakis - 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a small-scaled qualitative study exploring the perceptions of four first-
year EFL engineering students with dyslexia regarding an online dyslexia-friendly English …

More than words: the impact of memory on how undergraduates with dyslexia interact with information

L Cole, A MacFarlane, S Makri - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Despite the prevalence of dyslexia and the challenges it poses for seeking, assessing and
using information, there has been relatively little research on the challenges people with …