TY - GEN
T1 - "Who are you?"
T2 - 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2023
AU - Bettencourt, Benjamin
AU - Manzi Muneza, Assoumer Redempta
AU - Green, Michael
AU - Anguiano, Samantha
AU - Fails, Jerry Alan
AU - Kennington, Casey
AU - Wright, Katherine Landau
AU - Pera, Maria Soledad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 ACM.
PY - 2023/6/26
Y1 - 2023/6/26
N2 - As an initial step towards enabling the adaptation of (popular, and widely used) web search environments so that they can better serve children and ease their path towards information discovery, we introduce Recognizing Young Searchers (RYSe). RYSe leverages lexical, syntactical, spelling/punctuation, and vocabulary features that align with the Concrete Operational stage of development (originally identified by Jean Piaget) in an attempt to identify users that are in this stage. The concrete operational stage is commonly associated with children ages 7-11. Findings emerging from our initial empirical exploration using single queries formulated by children and sample queries from adults showcase the feasibility of relying on different cognitive traits inferred from the short text of a single query to distinguish those that are formulated by younger searchers.
AB - As an initial step towards enabling the adaptation of (popular, and widely used) web search environments so that they can better serve children and ease their path towards information discovery, we introduce Recognizing Young Searchers (RYSe). RYSe leverages lexical, syntactical, spelling/punctuation, and vocabulary features that align with the Concrete Operational stage of development (originally identified by Jean Piaget) in an attempt to identify users that are in this stage. The concrete operational stage is commonly associated with children ages 7-11. Findings emerging from our initial empirical exploration using single queries formulated by children and sample queries from adults showcase the feasibility of relying on different cognitive traits inferred from the short text of a single query to distinguish those that are formulated by younger searchers.
KW - adaptation
KW - children
KW - user modeling
KW - web search
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163707832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3563359.3596992
DO - 10.1145/3563359.3596992
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85163707832
T3 - UMAP 2023 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
SP - 305
EP - 310
BT - UMAP 2023 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Y2 - 26 June 2023 through 30 June 2023
ER -