1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Development of Information Retrieval system Interface in WWW for Visually Impaired
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10680416
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
情報システム学(含情報図書館学)
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| Research Institution | Tsukuba College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAKE Teruhisa Tsukuba College of Technology, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Associate Prof., 情報処理学科, 助教授 (60209880)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 1999
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| Keywords | Information Retrieval / WWW / Visually Impaired / Search Engine / Talking Browser |
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| Research Abstract |
Many web pages are not suitable to access by talking browsers for visually impaired people. Even Web Search Engines that many users access frequently have same difficulties. In this research, a web search system which made to use comfortable with talking browsers and a method to use a personal start page fie that is prepared as a web page of a Search Engine and simplified to match to use a talking browser are reported, and it showed that the former approach has a difficulty of the cost to maintain database contents and the second approach is better if a tool to simplify search result pages is provided.
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