Title
Adolescent search roles
Abstract
In this article, we present an in-home observation and in-context research study investigating how 38 adolescents aged 14–17 search on the Internet. We present the search trends adolescents display and develop a framework of search roles that these trends help define. We compare these trends and roles to similar trends and roles found in prior work with children ages 7, 9, and 11. We use these comparisons to make recommendations to adult stakeholders such as researchers, designers, and information literacy educators about the best ways to design search tools for children and adolescents, as well as how to use the framework of searching roles to find better methods of educating youth searchers. Major findings include the seven roles of adolescent searchers, and evidence that adolescents are social in their computer use, have a greater knowledge of sources than younger children, and that adolescents are less frustrated by searching tasks than younger children. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1002/asi.22809
JASIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
search trends adolescents display,search tool,better method,best way,adolescent searcher,wiley periodicals,children age,computer use,search role,younger child,adolescent search role
Information retrieval,Computer science,Information seeking,Information literacy,Multimedia,User studies,Applied psychology,The Internet
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
1
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
18
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elizabeth Foss123515.49
Allison Druin23110375.37
Jason Yip318426.10
Whitney Ford440.43
Evan Golub524319.29
Hilary Hutchinson669052.19