Modise, Morebodi and Suleman, Hussein (2017) Mobile Search Interfaces for isiXhosa Speakers: A Comparison Between Voice and Text, Proceedings of 2017 Conference on Information Communications Technology and Society, 9-10 March 2017, Durban, South Africa, IEEE.
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Abstract
Search interfaces have for a long time been targeted at the resource-rich languages such as English. However, due to the increase in use of mobile phones in developing countries, these interfaces can now be adapted to languages in these settings to support information access on the Web. In this study, we propose two mobile search interfaces - text and voice - to support isiXhosa speakers to search for information on the Web. Experiments were conducted with 34 native isiXhosa speakers to measure satisfaction with the two interfaces. The results show that isiXhosa speakers were more satisfied with the mobile text interface.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | mobile search interfaces; developing countries; mobile phones; isiXhosa |
| Subjects: | Human-centered computing Information systems > Information retrieval |
| Alternate Locations: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7920649/ |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:31 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1230 |
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