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2007年11月在马里兰州大学人机交互实验室举行的儿童移动的设备讲习班。研讨会为期两天，活动将包括与会者介绍，分析现有的研究领域，并集思广益未来的研究途径。PI将邀请大约10名高级研究人员和行业专家参加，并为剩余的名额举行一般性的参与呼吁。此外，25%的名额将专门指定给研究生。 近年来，研究人员一直在探索使用移动的设备的儿童教育应用在一些领域：从数据收集的儿童实地研究，参与性的物理模拟，使用移动的指南，探索移动的儿童数字图书馆。这些移动的设备的范围从PDA和移动的电话到因特网平板电脑和超移动的PC。 鉴于这一重要的新研究领域，必须强调儿童工作，并使更多的研究界了解这一工作。可能产生的更广泛影响包括新的研究举措和合作，以及向更广泛的社区传播讲习班成果。沿着这条路线，PI将制作一个特殊的期刊，其中汇编了讨论和演示的结果。此外，他们还将在马里兰州大学人机交互实验室网站上开发一个在线研讨会成果库。

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.