The false trade‐off of relevance for safety in children's search systems

Figueiredo, Vanessa; Meyers, Eric M.

doi:10.1002/pra2.121

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“…When considering the relevance of retrieved resources, children tend to explore search engine result pages (SERP) sequentially, i.e., from top to bottom [26,32], as opposed to deciding relevance through scanning SERP snippets and clicking on a given result. This prompted researchers to investigate ways to both filter and re-rank resources so that those more relevant and suitable for children make their way to the top of the SERP [7,13,18,20,38,40,48]. From the standpoint of how children use search engines, Foss et al [21] as well as Duarte Torres and Weber [17] study children's interactions at different stages of the information seeking process.…”

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To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines

Milton,

Allen,

Pera

2021

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Research in the area of search engines for children remains in its infancy. Seminal works have studied how children use mainstream search engines, as well as how to design and evaluate custom search engines explicitly for children. These works, however, tend to take a one-size-fits-all view, treating children as a unit. Nevertheless, even at the same age, children are known to possess and exhibit different capabilities. These differences affect how children access and use search engines. To better serve children, in this vision paper, we spotlight accessibility and discuss why current research on children and search engines does not, but should, focus on this significant matter. CCS Concepts: • Social and professional topics → Children; • Human-centered computing → Accessibility; • Information systems → Web searching and information discovery.

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Section: "You Got a Play-date With Destiny!": Foundationmentioning

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To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines

Milton,

Allen,

Pera

2021

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“…A consistent concern has been the limited role in YII research in affecting real change in practice, research and development, or policy. For example, twenty years of work looking at youth search systems has not resulted in more efficacious or useful web search tools for children (Figueiredo & Meyers, 2019).…”

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Youth Research under the Microscope: A Conceptual Analysis of Youth Information Interaction Studies

Figueiredo

Meyers

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Youth information interaction (YII) research has focused on challenges youth encounter when interacting with information across different contexts. Although these studies have been fundamental to outline youth information behaviour, the absence of YII theoretical frameworks might limit our approach to contemporary issues, such as the increased use of apps and mobile devices for information searching. This paper presents a conceptual analysis of studies conducted between 1997-2020 to explore predominant epistemological stances and cognitive frameworks in YII. The conceptual analysis generated five typologies operationalizing YII studies in seven categories: epistemological stance, knowledge assumption, cognitive framework, study type, study design, theoretical framework, study outcomes, and applications. The findings suggest that YII research have converged to empiricist and rationalist stances supporting exploratory approaches. These findings elicit the urgency for the development of theoretical frameworks that support the validity of YII phenomena with the purpose of developing a new agenda for YII research.

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Toward a conceptual framework characterizing the interplay of interest development, information search, and knowledge construction (ISK) in Children’s learning

Jung,

Liu

2024

AJIM

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PurposeThis conceptual paper aims to demonstrate a holistic, multifaceted framework of interest development, information search, and knowledge construction (ISK) on children’s diverse information search behaviors.Design/methodology/approachBy reviewing previous literature on children’s interest development, online information seeking and search, and knowledge construction, we propose the ISK framework. Then, we provide example case studies with pilot analyses using qualitative approaches (e.g. video-based interaction analysis, thematic analysis) showing how the framework can be applied to different types of authentic information-seeking situations for children.FindingsThe ISK framework demonstrates the multifaceted interplays between children’s information behavior and their cognitive and affective development. This framework was supported using previous studies and pilot empirical applications. We also included potential research questions that could be addressed using the framework.Originality/valueOur paper provides a conceptual grounding to an in-depth, multidimensional understanding of children’s information behavior, which have been limitedly addressed in previous studies. Considering that children begin to search from their early stage of development and their search behaviors are tightly associated with other developmental states, our paper highlights the importance of investigating children’s search and information seeking and provides theoretical and empirical implications.

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The false trade‐off of relevance for safety in children's search systems

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines

To Infinity and Beyond! Accessibility is the Future for Kids' Search Engines

Youth Research under the Microscope: A Conceptual Analysis of Youth Information Interaction Studies

Toward a conceptual framework characterizing the interplay of interest development, information search, and knowledge construction (ISK) in Children’s learning

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