Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes Computational Psycholinguistics

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Intelligent Language Interfaces

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In the seminar you will choose one topic of cognitive science or user experience for one target user groups (children, adults, older adults or atypically developing people). The knowledge from those articles is used to further evaluate Language Interfaces listed below. Each student will get a different cognitive science or user experience topic; same Language Interfaces can be evaluated based on different topics. It is also recommended to compare two interfaces in the evaluation (e.g., Google vs. Yahoo). During the seminar, we gradually add more and more cognitive science and user experience aspects to the evaluation of the interfaces.

The articles of the selected cognitive science and user experience topics will be uploaded here after the first meeting.


Cognitive Science and User Experience topics:

Children
1. Developing attention skills - combining multimodal information
2. Memory constraints of school age children
3. Learning to read (internet)
4. Children as users of interfaces designed for adults
5. Designs children like

Adults
6. Attention to multimodal information
7. Memory effects on text reading
8. Use of web pages with multiple commercials
9. Attitudes toward text highlighting techniques

Older adults
10. Decay in memory and reading comprehension
11. Ability to combine multiple sources of information
12. Older adults and computer use (attitudes, emotions)
13. Use(r experience) of links

Atypically developing populations
14. Dyslexia and text comprehension
15. Multimodal information and dyslexia


Language Interfaces to be evaluated based on the above topics:

Educational information tools
e.g., Wikipedia, Wikipedia for kids, Language Learning Platforms

Social Media / Professional networks
e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

Search Engines
e.g., Google, Yahoo, Bing

News
e.g., BBC, CNN, Reuters

Additional topics (please, suggest & motivate yourself):
Games, Online Shopping etc.