 C5 2010 |
The Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
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C5 2010 |
The Eighth International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing
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What Children Can Teach Us Dr. Allison Druin, University of Maryland, USA Allison Druin is the Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) and an Associate Professor in the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies. She leads interdisciplinary research teams of librarians, educational researchers, computer scientists, artists, classroom teachers and children to create new educational technologies for elementary school children. Her work has included: developing digital libraries for children; designing technologies for families; and creating collaborative storytelling technologies for the classroom. Dr. Druin's most widely used work is the "International Children's Digital Library" (ICDL) www.childrenslibrary.org, now the largest digital library in the world for children and a non-profit foundation, the ICDL Foundation. For the past three years she has been a Commissioner on the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, appointed by the White House and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She is the author or editor of three books: Designing Multimedia Environments for Children (Wiley, 1996), The Design of Children's Technology (Morgan Kaufmann, 1999) and Robots for Kids (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000). She received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of New Mexico, her M.S. in 1987 from the MIT Media Lab, and a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985. |
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Dr. Alan Kay, Viewpoints Research Institute, USA |
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Evolution of Digital Content Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Keio University, Japan Dr. Tomonori Aoyama joined NTT Public Corporation in 1969, and then he had been engaged in research and development on communication networks and systems in the Electrical Communication Laboratories. From 1973 to 1974, he stayed in MIT as a visiting scientist to study digital signal processing technology. In 1994, he was appointed to Director of NTT Opto-Electronics Laboratory, and in 1995 he became Director of NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratory. In 1997, he left NTT, and joined the University of Tokyo as Professor in Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. Since April 2006, he is Professor of Research Institute for Digital Media and Content at Keio University. His research activity covers new generation networking technologies including photonic networking, ubiquitous networking and broadband applications with super high definition images. He is an IEEE Fellow, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan) Fellow, and a member of Science Council of Japan. He is currently the President-elect of IEICE. He serves as Program Coordinator for the new generation network architecture in National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). He also serves as Chairman of Photonic Internet Forum (PIF), and as Vice-Chair of New Generation Network Promotion Forum and Ubiquitous Networking Forum. He is President of NPO- Digital Cinema Consortium of Japan (DCCJ). |
Note: This workshop is held at Seifu-so (清風荘), which is a different location from the main conference site. Separate advance registration is required to attend this workshop. Please see the Registration page for details.
Keynote Talks by Dr. Allison Druin and Dr. Alan Kay
Paper Presentation Sessions
Conference Banquet
Keynote Talk by Dr. Tomonori Aoyama
Paper Presentation Sessions
Unconference Sessions including demos, posters, BOFs, discussions, etc.
Detailed program will be available in December.
