From Search for Children to Children as Searchers
Diletta Micol Tobia, Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera and Monica Landoni. 2026. “From Search for Children to Children as Searchers”. In Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) conference of the Alpine region (AlpChi’26).
Abstract
Search engines increasingly influence children’s learning. Yet most of these systems continue to treat them as miniature adults rather than developing learners. Building on previous child-oriented In formation Retrieval and Child-Computer Interaction literature, our work aims at redefining the role of children as active searchers, integrating the principles of scaffolding and Search-as-Learning.