Black Ears to Blonde Cats: Paths for designing change
Speaker
Ben Bederson and Allison Druin
Associate Professors, Computer Science Department and iSchool, University of Maryland
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Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)
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Description
As researchers, we both have grown up in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Over the past two decades, we learned how to understand, design, and innovate for diverse users. The challenging lessons we learned have resulted in technologies that can transform how the world’s children read books, how the American public votes, how families can visit U.S. National Parks, and much more. As all of us look to the future, we believe it is time to consider change that goes beyond innovating technology. We must use our experiences as HCI researchers to lead, innovate, and transform our field.
Speaker's Bio
Dr. Allison Druin is Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab and an Associate Professor in the University of Maryland’s iSchool. Since 1998, she has led 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 is the research leader for the International Children’s Digital Library. Most recently she was made a monthly technology correspondent for WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show: Tech Tuesday. Dr. Druin received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design in 1985, an M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1987, and her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico’s College of Education in 1997.
www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond
Dr. Ben Bederson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the previous director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. His work is on mobile device interfaces, information visualization, interaction strategies, digital libraries, and accessibility issues such as voting system usability. He completed his Ph.D. in 1992 and his M.S. in 1989 at New York University in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Computer Science. He graduated with a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986.
www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson
Host
Brad Myers