Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google

Hanna Jochmann-Mannak; Theo W.C. Huibers; Leo Lentz; Ted Sanders

Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google

Hanna Jochmann-Mannak, Theo W.C. Huibers, Leo Lentz, Ted Sanders

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Abstract

Children frequently make use of the Internet to search for information. However, research shows that children experience many problems with searching and browsing the web. The last decade numerous search environments have been developed, especially for children. Do these search interfaces support children in effective information-seeking? And do these interfaces add value to today’s popular search engines, such as Google? In this explorative study, we compared children’s search performance on four interfaces designed for children, with their performance on Google. We found that the children did not perform better on these interfaces than on Google. This study also uncovered several problems that children experienced with these search interfaces, which can be of use for designers of future search interfaces for children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Towards Accessible Search Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Editors	Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra, Ian Ruthven
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	27-35
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 23 Jul 2010
Event	Workshop Towards Accessible Search Systems 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 23 Jul 2010 → 23 Jul 2010 https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/ian.ruthven/accessiblesearch/

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Workshop	Workshop Towards Accessible Search Systems 2010
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Geneva
Period	23/07/10 → 23/07/10
Internet address	https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/ian.ruthven/accessiblesearch/

Keywords

Information-seeking behaviour
Children
Searching
Browsing
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/231507
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Jochmann-Mannak, H., Huibers, T. W. C., Lentz, L., & Sanders, T. (2010). Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google. In P. Serdyukov, D. Hiemstra, & I. Ruthven (Eds.), Towards Accessible Search Systems: Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 27-35). Association for Computing Machinery.

Jochmann-Mannak, Hanna ; Huibers, Theo W.C. ; Lentz, Leo et al. / Children searching information on the Internet : Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google. Towards Accessible Search Systems: Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. editor / Pavel Serdyukov ; Djoerd Hiemstra ; Ian Ruthven. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. pp. 27-35

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Jochmann-Mannak, H, Huibers, TWC, Lentz, L & Sanders, T 2010, Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google. in P Serdyukov, D Hiemstra & I Ruthven (eds), Towards Accessible Search Systems: Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 27-35, Workshop Towards Accessible Search Systems 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, 23/07/10.

Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google. / Jochmann-Mannak, Hanna; Huibers, Theo W.C.; Lentz, Leo et al.
Towards Accessible Search Systems: Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. ed. / Pavel Serdyukov; Djoerd Hiemstra; Ian Ruthven. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 27-35.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic

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Jochmann-Mannak H, Huibers TWC, Lentz L, Sanders T. Children searching information on the Internet: Performance on children's interfaces compared to Google. In Serdyukov P, Hiemstra D, Ruthven I, editors, Towards Accessible Search Systems: Workshop of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Association for Computing Machinery. 2010. p. 27-35

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