The International Children's Digital Library: Description and analysis of first use

Druin, Allison; Bederson, Benjamin B.; Weeks, Ann Carlson; Farber, Allison; Grosjean, Jesse; Guha, Mona Leigh; Hourcade, Juan Pablo; Lee, Juhyun; Liao, Sabrina; Reuter, Kara; Rose, Anne C.; Takayama, Yoshifumi; Zhang, Lingling

doi:10.5210/fm.v8i5.1050

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“…The intergenerational design team approach goes a step further by involving children actively in the actual design process, employing what Druin has called "Cooperative Inquiry." Here children are treated as full design partners in the team alongside the adults (Druin et al, 2001(Druin et al, , 2003 The team of children and adults meets regularly with the goal of developing a prototype. Druin (2002) argues that when children are restricted to the role of informant they can only offer feedback without an opportunity to elaborate or build upon ideas: the intergenerational design team provides an opportunity to create rather than merely critique.…”

Section: Intergenerational Design Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interface Design, Web Portals, and Children

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Beheshti²

2005

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Children seek information in order to complete school projects on a wide variety of topics, as well as to support their various leisure activities. Such information can be found in print documents, but increasingly young people are turning to the Web to meet their information needs. In order to exploit this resource, however, children must be able to search or browse digital information through the intermediation of an interface. In particular, they must use Webbased portals that in most cases have been designed for adult users. Guidelines for interface design are not hard to fi nd, but typically they also postulate adult rather than juvenile users. The authors discuss their own research work that has focused upon what young people themselves have to say about the design of portal interfaces. They conclude that specifi c interface design guidelines are required for young users rather than simply relying upon general design guidelines, and that in order to formulate such guidelines it is necessary to actively include the young people themselves in this process.

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Section: Intergenerational Design Teamsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interface Design, Web Portals, and Children

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Beheshti²

2005

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“…Use of OPACs (Borgman, Hirsch, Walter, & Gallagher, 1995;Solomon, 1993), CD-ROM and other electronic resources (Large, Beheshti, & Rahman, 2002;Large, Beheshti, Nesset, & Bowler, 2003), and the Internet and/or WWW (Bilal, 2000a(Bilal, , 2000b or digital libraries (Abbas, 2001;Druin, 2002, in press;Druin et al, 2003) by children has been investigated. 4 While information-seeking research is beyond the scope of this article, it still remains a critical piece of the representation puzzle and serves to inform researchers, metadata creators, and system developers of the unique needs of children.…”

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“…International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) Druin (1999Druin ( , 2002, in press), Druin et al (2003), and Reuter and Druin (2004) have been working with young children as design partners to create the International Children's Digital Library. The research team worked with children to design the interface, specialized search features, metadata scheme, and categories for classifi cation, access, and organization of the resources.…”

Section: Digital Library Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating Metadata for Children's Resources: Issues, Research, and Current Developments

Abbas¹

2005

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A key challenge to retrieval in any type of system is how to represent the resources appropriately so that the user(s) can fi nd what they are looking for. In systems being used by children, as well as those designed specifi cally for children, there exist two fundamental representation problems: (1) the metadata or representation scheme of the system may not be designed with this specifi c user group in mind, and (2) few age-appropriate controlled vocabularies exist for use in creating metadata. Existing research in these two problem areas and the impact on the users' information seeking and retrieval experiences are presented. Current projects and developments, and the contribution that the users themselves can provide, will give the reader further insight into the issues and potential opportunities for research and application.

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“…Many of the principles driving our system design are derived from this work. The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) [8] builds on PhotoMesa by laying out children's book cover thumbnails in zoomable treemaps. Our work differs from the ICDL in several respects, including the use of hybrid treemaps, the specific modes of navigation supported, the ability to generate the collection automatically, and the accommodation of large, heterogeneous collections.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Fluid Interface for Personal Digital Libraries

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Popat

Janssen

et al. 2005

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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Abstract. An advanced interface is presented for fluid interaction in a personal digital library system. The system employs a zoomable planar representation of a collection using hybrid continuous/quantum treemap visualizations to facilitate navigation while minimizing cognitive load. The system is particularly well suited to user tasks which, in the physical world, are normally carried out by laying out a set of related documents on a physical desk -namely, those tasks that require frequent and rapid transfer of attention from one document in the collection to another. Discussed are the design and implementation of the system as well as its relationship to previous work.

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The International Children's Digital Library: Description and analysis of first use

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

Interface Design, Web Portals, and Children

Interface Design, Web Portals, and Children

Creating Metadata for Children's Resources: Issues, Research, and Current Developments

A Fluid Interface for Personal Digital Libraries

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