Re-leashed! The PuppyIR Framework for Developing Information Services for Children, Adults and Dogs

摘要

Children are active information seekers, but research has suggested that services, designed with adults in mind, are a poor fit to their needs. The goal of the PuppyIR project is to design, develop and deliver an open source framework for building information services specifically for children, which incorporates the current understanding of children's information seeking needs. This paper describes the framework's architecture, highlights two of its novel information processing components, and marks the release of the framework to the wider Interactive Information Retrieval community. PuppyIR provides an open and common framework for the rapid prototyping, development and evaluation of information services specifically for children.