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- research-articleAugust 2024
Report on the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2 2024) at ECIR 2024
In this report, we summarise the program and takeaways from the 1st edition of the Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2), co-located with the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR).
Date: 24 March 2024.
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- extended-abstractJune 2024
Toward Personalised Learning Experiences: Beyond Prompt Engineering
- Joost Kruis,
- Maria Soledad Pera,
- Zoë ten Napel,
- Monica Landoni,
- Emiliana Murgia,
- Theo Huibers,
- Remco Feskens
IDC '24: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children ConferencePages 644–649https://doi.org/10.1145/3628516.3659367We discuss the foundation of a collaborative effort to explore AI’s role in supporting (teachers and) children in their learning experiences. We integrate principles of educational psychology, AI, and HCI, and align with best practices in education ...
- ArticleMarch 2024
1 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users (IR4U2)
AbstractInformation Retrieval (IR) remains an active, fast-paced area of research. However, most advances in IR have predominantly benefited the so-called “classical” users, e.g., English-speaking adults. We envision IR4U2as a forum to spotlight efforts ...
- ArticleMarch 2024
Good for Children, Good for All?
AbstractIn this work, we reason how focusing on Information Retrieval (IR) for children and involving them in participatory studies would benefit the IR community. The Child Computer Interaction (CCI) community has embraced the child as a protagonist as ...
- extended-abstractJune 2023
ChatGPT in the Classroom: A Preliminary Exploration on the Feasibility of Adapting ChatGPT to Support Children’s Information Discovery
- Emiliana Murgia,
- Zahra Abbasiantaeb,
- Mohammad Aliannejadi,
- Theo Huibers,
- Monica Landoni,
- Maria Soledad Pera
UMAP '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationPages 22–27https://doi.org/10.1145/3563359.3597399The influence of ChatGPT and similar models on education is being increasingly discussed. With the current level of enthusiasm among users, ChatGPT is envisioned as having great potential. As generative models are unpredictable in terms of producing ...
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- research-articleJune 2023
Children on ChatGPT Readability in an Educational Context: Myth or Opportunity?
UMAP '23 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationPages 311–316https://doi.org/10.1145/3563359.3596996In this work, we present the results of a preliminary exploration aiming to understand whether the use of ChatGPT in an educational context can be an asset to meet the specific needs of the students. In particular, we focus on the possibility of ...
- ArticleApril 2023
Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children’s Queries
AbstractThis paper contributes to the discussion initiated in a recent SIGIR paper describing a gap in the information retrieval (IR) literature on query understanding–where they come from and whether they serve their purpose. Particularly the connection ...
- research-articleJanuary 2023
Report on the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2022) Workshop at ACM IDC 2022: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era
ACM SIGIR Forum (SIGIR), Volume 56, Issue 2Article No.: 8, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3582900.3582912We summarize the outcomes of the most recent KidRec Workshop (June 2022), which was held for the first time in a hybrid, synchronous mode. The focus of the workshop was to understand the impact of the COVID-19 era on the design, development, and ...
- ArticleSeptember 2022
The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion
Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and InteractionPages 62–78https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13643-6_5AbstractExposure to technology impacts children’s perception and conceptualisation of the way devices they regularly use work. This prompts us to study if almost two years of online teaching, enabled by a broad range of technologies, have influenced the ...
- extended-abstractJune 2022
6th KidRec Workshop: Information Retrieval Systems for Children in the COVID-19 Era
IDC '22: Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children ConferencePages 696–699https://doi.org/10.1145/3501712.3536387The role that technology plays in supporting children at school and at home is more prominent than ever before due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This has prompted us to focus the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Ethical implications for children’s use of search tools in an educational setting
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (IJCCI), Volume 32, Issue Chttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100386AbstractIn the classroom, search tools enable students to access online resources. While these tools have many benefits in theory, in practice there are also ethical issues to consider. In this article, we discuss a number of ethics-related ...
- research-articleMarch 2022
Report on the 1st IR for children 2000--2020: where are we now? (IR4C) workshop at SIGIR 2021: the need to spotlight research on children information retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum (SIGIR), Volume 55, Issue 2Article No.: 11, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3527546.3527560We present a brief overview of the discussions and takeaways emerging from the IR for Children 2000--2020: Where Are We Now? Workshop, co-located with the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval.
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- short-paperMarch 2022
Have a Clue! The Effect of Visual Cues on Children’s Search Behavior in the Classroom
CHIIR '22: Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalPages 310–314https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505845We study the effect of visual cues on children searching in the classroom. We do so by examining whether Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) enhanced with emojis, unlike standard SERP, affect children’s search behaviour. To capture search behaviour, we ...
- ArticleSeptember 2021
The Impact of User Demographics and Task Types on Cross-App Mobile Search
AbstractRecent developments in the mobile app industry have resulted in various types of mobile apps, each targeting a different need and a specific audience. Consequently, users access distinct apps to complete their information need tasks. This leads to ...
- research-articleAugust 2021
4th KidRec - what does good look like: from design, research, and practice to policy
ACM SIGIR Forum (SIGIR), Volume 54, Issue 2Article No.: 6, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3483382.3483391We summarize outcomes from KidRec 2020, the 4th edition of the workshop on International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems; which this year was co-located with the ACM Interaction Design and ...
- short-paperJuly 2021
IR for Children 2000-2020: Where Are We Now?
SIGIR '21: Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalPages 2689–2692https://doi.org/10.1145/3404835.3462822Over 20 years ago, Information Retrieval (IR) researchers began their quest for sound IR systems for children. The path was not straightforward. Challenges posed by interface design, relevance determination, diverse contexts, ethics, and many more, were ...
- short-paperJune 2021
Right Way, Right Time: Towards a Better Comprehension of Young Students’ Needs when Looking for Relevant Search Results
UMAP '21: Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and PersonalizationPages 256–261https://doi.org/10.1145/3450613.3456843We report on the exploration we conducted to understand better children’s needs for the design of Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) that can help them notice relevant resources when performing online inquiry tasks in a classroom context. We analyse ...
- research-articleApril 2021
Somewhere over the Rainbow: Exploring the Sense for Relevance in Children
ECCE '21: Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Cognitive ErgonomicsArticle No.: 30, Pages 1–5https://doi.org/10.1145/3452853.3452885We explore the facets of relevance that guide children when assessing materials retrieved by search engines when looking for information in the classroom. We involved children in a collaborative exercise and asked them to design innovative icons to ...
- research-articleMarch 2021
What does good look like?: report on the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019
This short review discusses the outcomes of the 3rd Workshop of the International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec 2019), co-located with the 2019 ACM Interaction Design and Children (...
- short-paperMarch 2021
Children's Perspective on How Emojis Help Them to Recognise Relevant Results: Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words?
CHIIR '21: Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalPages 301–305https://doi.org/10.1145/3406522.3446058We discuss the exploratory study we conducted to better understand children's ability to recognise relevant results when searching in the classroom. Teachers in two European schools sharing the same language assigned their students (ages 10 and 11) an ...