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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

Email

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

Thank You!

efoss@umd.eduwww.elizabethfoss.info

*Research funded by Google Faculty Research Awards