The Effect of Prolonged Exposure to Online Education on a Classroom Search Companion

Mohammad Aliannejadi, Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Maria Soledad Pera*

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Abstract

Exposure 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 way children imagine a search companion would look and behave when helping them perform school-related search tasks. We conducted a 2-stage study during which children ages 9 to 11 drew and described their imaginary search companion; they also chose a few desirable and non-necessary traits. By following the protocol of a study conducted pre-pandemic, we contextualise salient altered expectations that we attribute to exposure to technology prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight and discuss emerging trends observed from the analysis of data gathered before and after the extensive online experience and how these will guide the design of functionality of a search companion for the classroom.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationExperimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 13th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2022, Proceedings
EditorsAlberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Mirko Degli Esposti, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Craig Macdonald, Gabriella Pasi, Allan Hanbury, Martin Potthast
PublisherSpringer
Pages62-78
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783031136429
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2022 - Bologna, Italy
Duration: 5 Sept 20228 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13390 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages, CLEF 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityBologna
Period5/09/228/09/22

Keywords

  • children
  • classroom
  • COVID-19
  • search companion

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