Abstract
Exposure to technology impacts children’s perception and conceptualisation of the way devices they regularly use work. This prompts us to study if almost two years of online teaching, enabled by a broad range of technologies, have influenced the way children imagine a search companion would look and behave when helping them perform school-related search tasks. We conducted a 2-stage study during which children ages 9 to 11 drew and described their imaginary search companion; they also chose a few desirable and non-necessary traits. By following the protocol of a study conducted pre-pandemic, we contextualise salient altered expectations that we attribute to exposure to technology prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight and discuss emerging trends observed from the analysis of data gathered before and after the extensive online experience and how these will guide the design of functionality of a search companion for the classroom.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction |
Subtitle of host publication | 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, Bologna, Italy, September 5–8, 2022, Proceedings |
Editors | Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Mirko Degli Esposti, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Craig Macdonald, Gabriella Pasi, Allan Hanbury, Martin Potthast |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 62-78 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-13643-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-13642-9 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 13th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2022 - Bologna, Italy Duration: 5 Sept 2022 → 8 Sept 2022 Conference number: 13 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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Publisher | Springer |
Volume | 13390 |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 13th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2022 |
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Abbreviated title | CLEF 2022 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Bologna |
Period | 5/09/22 → 8/09/22 |
Keywords
- Children
- Classroom
- Covid-19
- Search companion
- n/a OA procedure