You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents

Monica Landoni; Theo W.C. Huibers; Emiliana Murgia; Maria Soledad Pera

doi:10.1145/3386392.3397604

You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents

Monica Landoni, Theo W.C. Huibers, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera

Human Media Interaction

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Abstract

Children turn to online search tools to complete classroom-related assignments. Unfortunately, these tools are rarely explicitly tailored to meet children's needs and skills. We seek to design a Search Agent (SA) for children in the context of education; one that can foster natural, effective and rewarding interactions in the educational context. To do so, we build on previous explorations of children's interactions with search tools and study how they imagine a SA that can help with assignments required online quests: What are the pragmatic and hedonistic qualities of such SA? Also, do previous experience and familiarity with search technology affect children's preferences? We involved in our study children ages 10-11 and inquired on factors that define their overall experience with a SA. We outline the steps of our research and the emerging lessons learned so that they can guide the design of a SA.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UMAP 2020 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	89-94
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-7950-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3386392.3397604
Publication status	Published - 14 Jul 2020
Event	28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2020 - Genoa, Italy Duration: 14 Jul 2020 → 17 Jul 2020 Conference number: 28

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Conference	28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2020
Abbreviated title	UMAP
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genoa
Period	14/07/20 → 17/07/20

Keywords

Agent
Assistants
Children
Classroom
Drawing
Experience
Interface
Personification
Search
n/a OA procedure

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Landoni, M, Huibers, TWC, Murgia, E & Pera, MS 2020, You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents. in UMAP 2020 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 89-94, 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2020, Genoa, Italy, 14/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3386392.3397604

You've Got a Friend in Me: Children and Search Agents. / Landoni, Monica; Huibers, Theo W.C.; Murgia, Emiliana et al.
UMAP 2020 Adjunct - Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 89-94.

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

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