A Gamification Framework for Enhancing Search Literacy

Abstract

Recent studies reveal that the overall search literacy leaves something to be desired and that the most people overestimate their skills in the domain of Web search. In this paper, a gamification framework is introduced that aims at increasing the search literacy within a ludic environment to support Internet users in being more successful in their daily search sessions. Furthermore, the paper presents plans for future work that strive for answering whether the search literacy can be improved by applying the presented approach and how we can detect and especially measure such an improvement.

Affiliations

Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Contributors

Ioannis Karatassis

Conference

Publication date: September 2015

Publication date (Print): September 2015

Pages: 3-6

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2015.2

Copyright statement: © Karatassis. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 6 ^th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2015

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Conference name: Sixth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2015)

Conference acronym: FDIA 2015

Conference number: 6

Conference location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Conference date: 31 August - 4 September 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access

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Product Information: 1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing