How children search the internet with keyword interfaces

Proceedings of IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-96

  Druin, Allison ^a   Foss, Elizabeth ^a   Hatley, Leshell ^a   Golub, Evan ^a   Guha, Mona Leigh ^a   Fails, Jerry ^a   Hutchinson, Hilary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Internet; Query formulation; Search; Search engine; Search results; Typing

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; QUERY FORMULATION; SEARCH; SEARCH RESULTS; WEB DIRECTORIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 70450247256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1551788.1551804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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