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Beth FossHCIL Symposium, 2014
Children’s Adaptable Internet Searching
in a Changing Search Landscape
Mobile Devices
Social Influence
Interfaces in Flux
The Changing Search Landscape
Children’s Internet Searching Studies
Time2008 2013
Age
Ages 7, 9, 11 Ages 10-15
10/11 Year olds
Children’s Current Search Experience
Spelling1
Unfamiliar Vocabulary2
Difficulty Formulating Queries3
“coin-ee-fer” =
crint vis prasadent =
“I don’t know what to type.”
1. (e.g. Gossen et al., 2011)
2. (Kafai & Bates, 1997; van der Sluis & van Dijk, 2010)3. (Duarte Torres, Hiemstra, & Serduykov,
2010)
scedwal =
“cash-ay” =
current vice presidentschedule
conifercache
Text Box
Expandable
Grid
Search Button
Things
This Changes
]Result]Page Title
URL[
]Snippet
Query CompletionFilters
Does this:
Look more like this…
Or this?
“Something to the right.”
“Here, but I’ve never seen this
thing before.”
Don’t Use Wikipedia!!!
Not Useful for Homework
Good Stuff Starts!
Wait, Huh?
Interfaces in Flux
200820132014
What three features are most important for them to know?
Children are aware of very few features of the search interface
(26%)
(20%)
(18%)
(34%)
(28%)
(24%)
2008 2013
14%
45%
11 year olds discussing Youtube
Striking visual contrast, interactive graphics, and quickly accessible tools
attract children’s attention
Guide children towards using helpful interface features using visual cues
Social Influence
http://www.marketingtypeguys.com/social-media-marketing/
2008 2013
43%
73%
11 YEAR OLDS DISCUSSING SOCIAL COMPUTER USE
Device Co-Use
Social Media
Text, Voice, & Video Chat
Online Gaming
Co-Located
Asynchronous
Remote
Synchronous
Children are more technologically social now than in the past, and socially engage
in a variety of ways
2008 20137%
64%
11 year olds discussingInfluence from friends
Friends are more accessible via technology, and have become a major
source of search knowledge
Mobile Devices
http://www.tenable.com/nessus-15/img/mobile-devices.png
2008 2013
14%
36%
11 year olds andDevice use or ownership
Lower skill level
Very social users
Future research into whether devices limit search skill development and
encourage social use
Children are responsive to the changing search landscape
Visual interface design impacts young
searchers
Social computer use
engages children
Friends provide search
knowledge
Area of future research