Open Access“Sometimes the internet reads the question wrong”: Children's search strategies & difficulties
Author(s) -
Vanderschantz Nicholas,
Hinze Annika,
Cunningham Sally Jo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.2014.14505101053
Subject(s) - the internet , search engine , world wide web , information seeking , computer science , internet privacy , digital library , information retrieval , psychology , art , literature , poetry
When children search for information on a given topic, how do they go about searching for and retrieving information? What can their information seeking strategies tell us about the development of search interfaces for children's digital libraries, search engines and information repositories? We interviewed New Zealand (NZ) school children to seek insights into how they are conducting information searches during their education.