Browsing the web exposes children to vast numbers of websites on every imaginable topic and in many different media formats (e.g. web sites, documents, videos, images). Using a search engine to find information from large numbers of disparate web pages is very different
from searching the finite and pre-determined content found in the CD-ROM applications, online digital libraries, and web directories of the past. However, most of what we know about how children search is based on studies using these kinds of sources. Today’s search engines are not only more expansive than past technologies, but more ubiquitous in a child’s world. It is not uncommon for young people to begin to go online with a parent or sibling by the age of three or four. They move from their home computers, to their schools’
computing facilities, to their mobile phones, searching for online games, information for school assignments, and random facts they are curious about because of the world around them. Today’s children are the first generation of what are being called “digital natives” [1]. As a result, it is important to explore how children search the Internet with today’s ubiquitous keyword interfaces. With the knowledge gained from such studies, we hope to design and test new interfaces and algorithms to better support the needs of children.
from searching the finite and pre-determined content found in the CD-ROM applications, online digital libraries, and web directories of the past. However, most of what we know about how children search is based on studies using these kinds of sources. Today’s search engines are not only more expansive than past technologies, but more ubiquitous in a child’s world. It is not uncommon for young people to begin to go online with a parent or sibling by the age of three or four. They move from their home computers, to their schools’
computing facilities, to their mobile phones, searching for online games, information for school assignments, and random facts they are curious about because of the world around them. Today’s children are the first generation of what are being called “digital natives” [1]. As a result, it is important to explore how children search the Internet with today’s ubiquitous keyword interfaces. With the knowledge gained from such studies, we hope to design and test new interfaces and algorithms to better support the needs of children.
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