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<td valign="top"><b>What Children Can Teach Us</b><br/><i><b>Dr. Allison Druin</b></i>, University of Maryland, USA<br/><br/>
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. </td></tr>
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Detailed program will be available in December.
