Children's Use of the Yahooligans! Web Search engine: I. Cognitive, Physical, and Affective Behaviors on Fact-based I. Search Tasks

摘要

This study reports on the first part of a research project that investigated children's cognitive, affective, and physical behaviors as they use the Yahooligans! Search engine to find information on a specific search task. Twenty-two seventh-grade science children from a mid- Dle school located in Knoxville, Tennessee participated In the project. Their cognitive and physical behaviors Were captured using Lotus ScreenCam, a Windows- Based software package that captures and replays ac- tivities recorded in Web browsers, such as Netscape. Their affective states were captured via a one-on-one exit Interview.