Information-seeking strategies of novices using a full-text electronic encyclopedia
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Frequency distributions of hypertext path patterns: a pragmatic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Searcher response in a hypertext-based bibliographic information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Task complexity affects information seeking and use
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
How people revisit web pages: empirical findings and implications for the design of history systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: World Wide Web usability
Children's Internet searching on complex problems: performance and process analyses
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on user-centered cooperative systems
Information counseling inventory of affective and cognitive reactions while learning the Internet
Internet Reference Services Quarterly - Special issue: the challange of Internet literacy: the instruction- Web convergence, Part I
“If you don't have it, you can't find it”: a close look at students' perceptions in using technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Children's relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Users' interaction with World Wide Web resources: an exploratory study using a holistic approach
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The Web as a classroom resource: reactions from the users
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as web users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Web search strategies and human individual differences: A combined analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Facing and bridging gaps in Web searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Children as architects of Web directories: An exploratory study: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
High school students' Information seeking and use for class projects
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Academic users' interactions with ScienceDirect in search tasks: Affective and cognitive behaviors
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Children's navigation of hyperspace: are spatial skills important?
WBED'07 Proceedings of the sixth conference on IASTED International Conference Web-Based Education - Volume 2
Supporting reflective web searching in elementary schools
Computers in Human Behavior
A novel approach for assisting teachers in analyzing student web-searching behaviors
Computers & Education
Toward a model of children's information seeking behavior in using digital libraries
Proceedings of the second international symposium on Information interaction in context
Undergraduate students' mental models of the Web as an information retrieval system
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How children search the internet with keyword interfaces
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Developing a visual taxonomy: Children's views on aesthetics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CSCL'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 1
Learning with new technologies: Help seeking and information searching revisited
Computers & Education
The role of subjective factors in the information search process
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Facing and bridging gaps in Web searching
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Query log analysis in the context of information retrieval for children
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An analysis of queries intended to search information for children
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Wisdom of the ages: toward delivering the children's web with the link-based agerank algorithm
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A comparison of a conventional taxonomy with a 3D visualization for use by children
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
An interface for opportunistic discovery of information for young people
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: users and applications - Volume Part IV
Evaluating leading web search engines on children's queries
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: users and applications - Volume Part IV
What and how children search on the web
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Children's information retrieval: beyond examining search strategies and interfaces
FDIA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd BCS IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Children's search roles at home: Implications for designers, researchers, educators, and parents
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Children's web search with Google: the effectiveness of natural language queries
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The impact of task phrasing on the choice of search keywords and on the search process and success
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors
Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Query recommendation for children
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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This article presents the third part of a research project that investigated the information-seeking behavior and success of seventh-grade science children in using the Yahooligans! Web search engine/directory. In parts 1 and 2, children performed fully assigned tasks to pursue in the engine. In the present study, children generated their tasks fully. Children's information seeking was captured from the cognitive, physical, and affective perspectives using both quantitative and qualitative inquiry methods. Their information-seeking behavior and success on the fully self-generated task was compared to the behavior and success they exhibited in the two fully assigned tasks. Children were more successful on the fully self-generated task than the two fully assigned tasks. Children preferred the fully self-generated task to the two fully assigned tasks due to their ability to find the information sought and satisfaction with search results rather than the nature of the task in itself (i.e., self-generated aspect). Children were more successful when they browsed than when they searched by keyword on the three tasks. Yahooligans! design, especially its poor keyword searching, contributed to the breakdowns children experienced, implications for system design improvement and Web training are discussed.