A Study on Children's Searching Behavior Using Internet Search Engines

Recently, children's internet search engines are becoming the main method to access information. For those engines to function properly, search behavior of children as their searchers should be studied and the findings be applied to design and improve the systems. So an experiment was conducted and 22 3rd-grade elementary school students performed 3 searching tasks through ‘Junior Naver' and ‘Yahoo!꾸러기' which are representative children's search engines in Korea. Children's searching behavior was analyzed thoroughly through which the problems of children's search engines were diagnosed and recommendations were suggested to improve them.

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Vol.39 No.2

인터넷 검색엔진을 이용한 어린이들의 정보탐색행태에 관한 연구

A Study on Children's Searching Behavior Using Internet Search Engines

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