Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in
today's information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is …

From an early age, children need to gather information to learn about their environment.
Deciding which knowledge to pursue can be difficult because information can serve several …

Building upon a process-and context-oriented information quality framework, this paper
seeks to map and explore what we know about the ways in which young users of age 18 …

Knowing users' views and demographic traits offers a great potential for personalizing web
search results or related services such as query suggestion and query completion. Such …

The Internet is increasingly used by young children for all kinds of purposes. Nonetheless,
there are not many resources especially designed for children on the Internet and most of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine strengths and limitations that search
engines (SEs) exhibit when responding to web search queries associated with the grade …

Demographic attributes play an important role in retail market to characterize different types
of users. Such signals however are often only available for a small fraction of users in …

We investigate query characteristics and click behavior on SERPs of children in grades 6
and 8 (ages 11 and 13, respectively). We employ Retrospective Think-Aloud (RTA) protocol …

Abstract Information discovery tasks using online search tools are performed on a regular
basis by school-age children. However, these tools are not necessarily designed to both …

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