@inproceedings{7a11d2d53e754225bb1a3d732ef8938f,
title = "Sonny, Cerca! Evaluating the Impact of Using a Vocal Assistant to Search at School",
abstract = "Children struggle with translating their information needs into effective queries to initiate the search process. In this paper, we explore the degree to which the use of a Vocal Assistant (VA) as an intermediary between a child and a search engine can ease query formulation and foster completion of successful searches. We also examine the potential influence VA can have on the search process when compared to a traditional keyboard-driven approach. This comparison motivates the second contribution of our work, an evaluation framework that covers 4 dimensions: (1) a new search strategy (VA) for (2) a specific user group (children) given (3) a particular task (answering questions) in (4) a defined environment (school). The proposed framework can be adopted by the research community to conduct comprehensive assessments of search systems given new interaction methods, user groups, contexts, and tasks.",
keywords = "Evaluation, Schools, Search, Vocal assistant",
author = "Monica Landoni and Davide Matteri and Emiliana Murgia and Theo Huibers and Pera, {Maria Soledad}",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-28577-7_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030285760",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "101--113",
editor = "Fabio Crestani and Martin Braschler and Jacques Savoy and Andreas Rauber and Henning M{\"u}ller and Losada, {David E.} and {Heinatz B{\"u}rki}, Gundula and Linda Cappellato and Nicola Ferro",
booktitle = "Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 10th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2019, Proceedings",
note = "10th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2019 ; Conference date: 09-09-2019 Through 12-09-2019",
}