[Bridging_the_digital_divide] Interaction Design and Children Conference

[Jason Barkeloo]

Interaction Design and Children Conference
  Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert and Allison Druin
Technology Researchers
  Thursday, June 03, 2004; 1:00 p.m ET

This year, the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab  
holds the third annual Interaction Design and Children conference that  
focuses on the importance and current challenges of allowing children  
to be integrated at the early stage of the technology design process.  
The three-day conference features workshops, seminars and new research  
and products that include emerging technology, new research methods  
involving children in the design, development, and evaluation processes  
and the impact of new technologies on young people.

Conference speakers and chair Alan Kay, Marvin Minsky, Seymour Papert  
and Allison Druin will be online Thursday, June 3 at 1 p.m. ET to  
discuss the conference highlights and their research.

  Submit your questions and comments before or during the show.

Kay is a senior fellow in HP Labs researching and developing new  
software platforms. His work includes developing the idea of the  
personal computer, overlapping window interface and conceptualizing  
object-oriented programming. Recently, Kay received the 2003 Turing  
Award, one of the highest honors awarded from the Association of  
Computing Machinery (ACM). He has worked in Xerox PARC, Atari Research  
Labs, Apple Computer and the Walt Disney Company.

  Minsky is the Toshiba professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT  
Media Lab. He is considered to be one of the "founding fathers" of  
artificial intelligence. His research includes the possibilities for  
commonsense reasoning by machines and has made significant  
contributions to the fields of AI, mathematics, computational  
linguistics, robotics and children's technology. His books include "The  
Society of Mind" (1985) and "The Emotion Machine" (2001).

  Papert is a professor of Education and Media Technology at the MIT  
Media Lab and at the University of Maine. For over 40 years, Papert has  
pioneered research in how technology can provide children new ways to  
learn. In his labs at MIT, he has led research in developing the Logo  
programming language, LEGO Mindstorms and many other computational  
"objects to think with." He has also the author of "Mindstorms" (1980).

  Druin is a faculty member in the College of Information Studies and  
the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.  
Recently she was appointed by the White House and confirmed by the U.S.  
Senate to become a Commissioner in the U.S. National Commission on  
Libraries and Information Science. For almost two decades, she has led  
interdisciplinary teams of researchers and children to develop new  
educational technologies and to develop new methods of working with  
children as design partners.

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/ 
sp_technews_druin060204.htm

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Jason Barkeloo
President
TouchSmart Publishing
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