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Supporting children's web search in school environments

Authors:

Carsten Eickhoff,

Arjen P. de VriesAuthors Info & Claims

IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

Pages 129 - 137

https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362748

Published: 21 August 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays, the Internet represents a ubiquitous source of information and communication. Its central role in everyday life is reflected in the curricula of modern schools. Already in early grades, children are encouraged to search for information on-line. However, the way in which they interact with state-of-the-art search interfaces and how they explore and interpret the presented information, differs greatly from adult user behaviour.

This work describes a qualitative user study in which the Web search behaviour of Dutch elementary school children was observed and classified into roles motivated by prior research in cognitive science. Building on the findings of this survey, we propose an automatic method of identifying struggling searchers in order to enable teaching personnel to provide appropriate and targeted guidance where needed.

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Supporting children's web search in school environments
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document preparation
      1. Multi / mixed media creation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia

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IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

August 2012

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DOI:10.1145/2362724

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