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Vocabulary Navigation Made Easier
- Sonya Nikolova, Xiaojuan Ma, Marilyn Tremaine, and Perry Cook
- IUI 2010, Hong Kong, China
Vocabulary Navigation Made Easier
- Sonya Nikolova, Xiaojuan Ma, Marilyn Tremaine, and Perry Cook
- IUI 2010, Hong Kong, China
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| The arrangement of words using the LG vocabulary style. |
Summary
Finding particular vocabulary words can be quite difficult. This is especially true when the selection is increases into the hundreds. The authors of this paper acknowledge this issue, and they set out to find a solution. People with lexical impairments were a main focus of theirs. They ended up testing 16 people, 7 of which were female. In this test, they asked the participants to fill in phrases uses two different sets of vocabulary words. One was a more traditional format called LG vocabulary, whereas the other was created by the authors called ViVA vocabulary.
Finding particular vocabulary words can be quite difficult. This is especially true when the selection is increases into the hundreds. The authors of this paper acknowledge this issue, and they set out to find a solution. People with lexical impairments were a main focus of theirs. They ended up testing 16 people, 7 of which were female. In this test, they asked the participants to fill in phrases uses two different sets of vocabulary words. One was a more traditional format called LG vocabulary, whereas the other was created by the authors called ViVA vocabulary.
The main difference is that the ViVA format is created to reflect more of how the particular user’s mind groups and sorts vocabulary words and their relations. As they thought it would, there was a significant decrease in the time needed to navigate to the correct vocabulary words using the ViVA vocabulary format. While the test subjects did not have any lexical impairment, the designers believe that the improvement they saw with the participants would only be amplified when the system is used by people who do have lexical impairments.
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| The arrangement of words using their ViVA vocabulary style. |
Discussion
This seems like a pretty interesting idea. It also seems like something that could help people remember words when they simply can’t think of the specific word they are looking for. But like the authors said, this would be a great tool for foreign language speakers who are not native to this country. Sifting through a translation book can be extremely cumbersome, but having a system like this in a portable device could do wonders to improve upon that kind of situation. The last few papers have been pretty great ideas, and this one is no different.
This seems like a pretty interesting idea. It also seems like something that could help people remember words when they simply can’t think of the specific word they are looking for. But like the authors said, this would be a great tool for foreign language speakers who are not native to this country. Sifting through a translation book can be extremely cumbersome, but having a system like this in a portable device could do wonders to improve upon that kind of situation. The last few papers have been pretty great ideas, and this one is no different.
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