HCC: Workshop on Mobile Devices for Children

这笔资金将支持35名研究人员和研究生参加将于2007年11月在马里兰大学人机交互实验室举行的儿童移动设备研讨会。研讨会为期两天，活动将包括参与者陈述、对现有研究领域的分析以及对未来研究途径的集思广益。PIS将邀请大约10名高级研究人员和行业专家参与，并就剩余的时段举行一般性的参与呼吁。此外，25%的名额将专门为研究生指定。近年来，研究人员一直在探索将移动设备用于儿童教育应用的多个领域：从儿童为实地研究收集数据，到参与式物理模拟，用作移动指南，再到探索移动儿童数字图书馆。这些移动设备的范围从PDA和手机到互联网平板电脑和超移动PC。鉴于这一重要的新研究领域，儿童工作必须得到更大的研究界的重视和理解。可能产生的更广泛影响包括新的研究倡议和合作，以及向更广泛的社区传播研讨会成果。按照这一思路，私人投资司将出版一期特刊，汇编讨论和专题介绍的结果。此外，他们还将在马里兰大学人机交互实验室网站上开发一个研讨会成果的在线储存库。

This funding will support 35 researchers and graduate students to participate in a Workshop on Mobile Devices for Children, to be held November 2007 in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland. The workshop will be conducted over a two-day period and activities will include participant presentations, analysis of existing research areas, and brainstorming of future research avenues. The PIs will invite approximately 10 senior researchers and industry experts to participate and hold a general call for participation for the remaining slots. In addition, 25% of the slots will be specifically designated for graduate students. In recent years, researchers have been exploring the use of mobile devices for children's educational applications in a number of areas: from data collection by children for field research, to participatory physical simulations, to use as mobile guides, to exploring mobile childrens digital libraries. These mobile devices have ranged from PDAs and mobile phones to Internet Tablets and Ultra-Mobile PCs. Given this important new area of research, it is critical that work for children be highlighted and understood by the greater research community. Possible broader impacts include new research initiatives and collaborations, and dissemination of workshop results to a wider community. Along this line, the PIs will produce a special journal issue which compiles the results of the discussions and presentations. In addition, they will developing an online repository of workshop outcomes on the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Laboratory website.