Web search user interface for elderly: A systematic literature review

Abstract

The number of older people is rapidly increasing in most of the countries around the world and also their use of the Internet is increasing. They daily use Internet for searching various information and that too through different search engines. Search user interface is a way of communication and interaction between users and search engines to obtain the target information. Previously technologies were designed to improve human being’s daily life, but among elderly people specific needs are often neglected. Those available technology designs could be very much difficult for the older ones to learn and use. Thus, this trend attracts the researchers to take a look on the web search activity for the usage of elders in professional as well as business fields. Even though there is a significant growth in this field of research, there hasn’t been any attempts made for systematically analyzing and utilizing the researches from previous papers to make it usable for the current research purpose. This paper aims to gather and accumulate facts from the available research articles and show the challenges that could be faced while developing web search UI for the elderly. In this paper a detailed Systematic Literature Review is done by collecting all the surveys as well as research papers published over a period of time and reviewine them by using a pre-defined reviewing procedure therebyusing those strategies, to study the research papers.