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SUMMARY:Lecture: \"Mobile Technologies for Children\"
LOCATION:Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium\, Howe Hall
URL:http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/18587
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DESCRIPTION:http://www.lectures.iastate.edu/lecture/18587\n\
 nAllison Druin is director of the Human-Computer Interaction
  Lab and an associate professor in the University of Marylan
 d's College of Information Studies. Her work includes develo
 ping digital libraries for children\, designing technologies
  for families\, and creating collaborative storytelling tech
 nologies for the classroom.\n--------------------\nDruin's m
 ost active research is the International Children's Digital 
 Library (www.childrenslibrary.org)\, now the largest digital
  library in the world for children\, which she and colleague
 s expanded to a nonprofit foundation. She is the author or e
 ditor of four books\, including Mobile Technology for Childr
 en. Druin received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexi
 co. \n\nPart of the Women in Human-Computer Interaction Seri
 es and the Women in STEM Series.\n\nFor many children (ages 
 2-12) in the United States\, mobile technologies are now an 
 integral part of their everyday living and play experiences.
  They commonly use mobile phones\, netbooks\, pen-based comp
 uting\, GPS systems\, computer-enhanced toys and much more. 
 But this is not the case for all children.  There are still 
 young people who live in places where mobile technologies ar
 e just becoming affordable.  Others live in areas where ther
 e is no cell phone service at all.  And still other children
  live in places where basic living necessities outweigh the 
 need for electronic technologies.  There are extreme differe
 nces in children's opportunities and challenges for learning
  with new technologies. Allison Druin will discuss how to ap
 proach designing for these diverse children. This talk is no
 t about how to make mobile technologies.  It is about how to
  make BETTER mobile technologies for the world's children. D
 ruinI will demonstrate some of our newest work at the Human-
 Computer Interaction Lab in mobile collaboration and interge
 nerational mobile storytelling.  She will also suggest how t
 hese new mobile technologies call for new approaches to desi
 gn.\n\nContact: lectures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-9934
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