Research Catalog

Title

Children's internet search : using roles to understand children's search behavior / Elizabeth Foss and Allison Druin.

Author

Foss, Elizabeth,

Publication

• [San Rafael, CA?] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2014]
• ©2014.

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Additional Authors

Druin, Allison, 1963-

Series Statement

Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services, 1947-945X ; #34

Uniform Title

Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services #34.

Subject

• Information retrieval
• Information behavior
• Internet and children
• Web browsing
• Human-computer interaction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-89).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Existing Research -- 1.1. Approaches of the Existing Research -- 1.1.1. Search System Technology -- 1.1.2. Research Scope -- 1.1.3. Research Settings -- 1.1.4. Number and Age of Participants -- 1.1.5. Summary of Existing Approaches -- 1.2. Children's Current Experience of Search -- 1.2.1. Children and Results Interpretation -- 1.2.2. Typing, Mousing, and Spelling Challenges -- 1.2.3. Creation -- 1.2.4. Impact of Minor Interventions -- 1.2.5. Visual Design Preferences -- 1.3. Classifying Adult Searchers -- 1.4. Classifying Child Searchers -- 2. University of Maryland's Children and Internet Search Studies and the Search Role Framework -- 2.1. Methods -- 2.1.1. Recruitment -- 2.1.2. Participants -- 2.1.3. Data Collection -- 2.1.4. Analysis -- 2.1.5. Limitations -- 2.2. The Search Role Framework -- 2.3. Upcoming Chapters -- 3. Roles of Reaction: Developing and Non-Motivated Searchers -- 3.1. Developing Searchers -- 3.1.1. Enthusiasm toward Search -- 3.1.2. Inability to Parse and Natural Language Queries -- 3.1.3. Average Knowledge of Interface Features -- 3.2. Non-Motivated Searchers -- 3.2.1. Ambivalence toward Technology -- 3.2.2. Limited Knowledge of Interface Features -- 3.2.3. Limited Vocabulary and Verbalization -- 3.3. A Role Apart: Distracted Searchers -- 3.3.1. Focus when Searching and Purposeful Browsing -- 3.3.2. Frustration -- 3.3.3. Advertisements -- 4. Roles of Preference: Rule-Bound, Domain-Specific, and Visual Searchers -- 4.1. Rule-Bound Searchers -- 4.1.1. Self-imposed Rules -- 4.1.2. Parental and Home Rules -- 4.1.3. Educator and School Rules -- 4.2. Domain-Specific Searchers -- 4.2.1. Domain Knowledge -- 4.2.2. Source Knowledge -- 4.3. Visual Searchers -- 4.3.1. Visual Search Preference -- 4.3.2. Discussing Non-Textual Content -- 5. Roles of Proficiency: Power and Social Searchers -- 5.1. Social Searchers -- 5.1.1. Social Search and Computer Use -- 5.1.2. Influencers to Search Behavior -- 5.1.3. Search and Mobile Device Use -- 5.1.4. Discussing Search with Others -- 5.2. Power Searchers -- 5.2.1. Experience Equaling Expertise -- 5.2.2. Vocabulary and Verbal -- 5.2.3. High Knowledge of Interface Features -- 5.2.4. Ability to Parse -- 6. Conclusions -- 6.1. Search Role Framework and the Existing Research -- 6.2. Guidance for Adult Stakeholders -- 6.2.1. Parents -- 6.2.2. Educators -- 6.2.3. Designers -- 6.3. Need for Continued Research -- 6.3.1. Changing Search Landscape -- 6.3.2. Observing Social Behaviors -- 6.3.3. Research into Mobile Search.

ISBN

• 1608454436
• 9781608454433
• 9781608454440 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library