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Children's search roles at home: Implications for designers, researchers, educators, and parents

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  • Elizabeth Foss
  • Allison Druin
  • Robin Brewer
  • Phillip Lo
  • Luis Sanchez
  • Evan Golub
  • Hilary Hutchinson

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This paper presents the results of a large‐scale, qualitative study conducted in the homes of children aged 7, 9, and 11 investigating internet searching processes on Google. Seven search roles, representing distinct behavior patterns displayed by children when interacting with the Google search engine, are described, including Developing Searchers, Domain‐specific Searchers, Power Searchers, Nonmotivated Searchers, Distracted Searchers, Rule‐bound Searchers, and Visual Searchers. Other trends are described and selected to present a view of the whole child searcher. These roles and trends are used to make recommendations to designers, researchers, educators, and parents about the directions to take when considering how to best aid children to become search literate.

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  • Elizabeth Foss & Allison Druin & Robin Brewer & Phillip Lo & Luis Sanchez & Evan Golub & Hilary Hutchinson, 2012. "Children's search roles at home: Implications for designers, researchers, educators, and parents," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 63(3), pages 558-573, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:63:y:2012:i:3:p:558-573
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21700
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    1. Elizabeth Foss & Allison Druin & Jason Yip & Whitney Ford & Evan Golub & Hilary Hutchinson, 2013. "Adolescent search roles," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 64(1), pages 173-189, January.
    2. Pianran Wang & Yue Ma & Huan Xie & Hanqing Wang & Jinyi Lu & Jianhua Xu, 2022. "“There is a gorilla holding a key on the book cover”: Young children's known picture book search strategies," Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 73(1), pages 45-57, January.

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