Title: Children's internet search :
Authors: Foss, Elizabeth,; Druin, Allison,
Date: 2014
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
Physical description: xiii, 92 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: Internet search engines and the ability to competently use them factor heavily into the daily lives of youth. Whether mobile or at home, youth use search interfaces to complete academic assignments and to develop their personal identities through social interaction and explorations of personal interests. Understanding preferences and behaviors surrounding Internet search for youth is critical if adult stakeholders are to provide appropriate search education and interface design. Researchers have long focused on understanding discrete aspects of youth search behavior, but little research has at.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: Existing Research -- Approaches of the Existing Research -- Search System Technology -- Research Scope -- Research Settings -- Number and Age of Participants -- Summary of Existing Approaches -- Children's Current Experience of Search -- Children and Results Interpretation -- Typing, Mousing, and Spelling Challenges -- Creation -- Impact of Minor Interventions -- Visual Design Preferences -- Classifying Adult Searchers -- Classifying Child Searchers -- University of Maryland's Children and Internet Search Studies and the Search Role Framework -- Methods -- Recruitment -- Participants -- Data Collection -- Analysis -- Limitations -- The Search Role Framework -- Upcoming Chapters -- Roles of Reaction: Developing and Non-Motivated Searchers -- Developing Searchers -- Enthusiasm toward Search -- Inability to Parse and Natural Language Queries -- Average Knowledge of Interface Features -- Non-Motivated Searchers -- Ambivalence toward Technology -- Limited Knowledge of Interface Features -- Limited Vocabulary and Verbalization -- A Role Apart: Distracted Searchers -- Focus when Searching and Purposeful Browsing -- Frustration -- Advertisements -- Roles of Preference: Rule-Bound, Domain-Specific, and Visual Searchers -- Rule-Bound Searchers -- Self-imposed Rules -- Parental and Home Rules -- Educator and School Rules -- Domain-Specific Searchers -- Domain Knowledge -- Source Knowledge -- Visual Searchers -- Visual Search Preference -- Discussing Non-Textual Content -- Roles of Proficiency: Power and Social Searchers -- Social Searchers -- Social Search and Computer Use -- Influencers to Search Behavior -- Search and Mobile Device Use -- Discussing Search with Others -- Power Searchers -- Experience Equaling Expertise -- Vocabulary and Verbal -- High Knowledge of Interface Features -- Ability to Parse -- Conclusions -- Search Role Framework and the Existing Research -- Guidance for Adult Stakeholders -- Parents -- Educators -- Designers -- Need for Continued Research -- Changing Search Landscape -- Observing Social Behaviors -- Research into Mobile Search.
Subject headings (LCSH): Human-computer interaction.; Information behavior; Information retrieval; Internet and children.; Web browsing.