A Study of Children’s Search Query Formulation Habits

The strategies children use for digital information search in educational settings are rarely explored. Open questions remain on such fundamental issues as to which information-seeking strategies children employ, how they construct queries, and if the strategies that are taught are effective when using modern search engines. We conducted an observation study with school children to gain insights into these questions. As a result of this study, we identified query-creation and query-reformulation strategies that children use.

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Nicholas Vanderschantz

Annika Hinze

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

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[0001]Department of Computer Science

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.7

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)

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Conference number: 31

Conference location: Sunderland, UK

Conference date: 3 - 6 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: digital make-believe, with delegates considering our expansive

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[1] D. Bilal 2000 Children’s use of the yahooligans! web search engine: I. cognitive, physical, and affective behaviors on fact-based search tasks Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 51 7):646 665

[2] A. DruinB. B. BedersonA. WeeksA. FarberJ. GrosjeanM. L. GuhaJ. P. HourcadeJ. LeeS. LiaoK. Reuter et al 2003 The international children’s digital library: Description and analysis of first use. Technical Report CS-TR- 4433 UMIACS University of Maryland

[3] A. DruinE. FossL. HatleyE. GolubM. L. GuhaJ. FailsH. Hutchinson 2009 How children search the internet with keyword interfaces International conference on interaction design and children, 89 96 ACM

[4] S. Duarte TorresD. HiemstraP. Serdyukov 2010 An analysis of queries intended to search information for children Symposium information interaction in context, 235 244 ACM

[5] A. LingnauI. RuthvenM. LandoniF. Van Der Sluis 2010 Interactive search interfaces for young children-the puppyir approach 10th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) 389 390 IEEE

[6] P. Moore 1995 Information problem solving: A wider view of library skills Contemporary educational psychology, 20 1):1 31

[7] C. TimpanyN. Vanderschantz 2011 Learning outcome dependency on contemporary ict in the new zealand middle school classroom 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on ComputerHuman Interaction, 65 72 ACM

[8] F. van der SluisE. M. A. G. van Dijk 2010 A closer look at children’s information retrieval usage: Towards child-centered relevance Workshop on Accessible Search Systems, at ACM SIGIR 2010), 3 10

[9] N. VanderschantzA. Hinze 2017 How kids see search: A visual analysis of internet search engines 2015 British hCi Conference. ACM

[10] N. VanderschantzA. HinzeS. J. Cunningham 2014a). Current educational technology use for digital information acquisition by young new zealand children Australasian Computer Science Conference, 125 134 ACS

[11] N. VanderschantzA. HinzeS. J. Cunningham 2014b). “Sometimes the internet reads the question wrong”: Children’s search strategies & difficulties American Society for Information Science and Technology, 51 1):1 10

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