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Item Chapter 3: Children as Our Technology Design Partners+(1998-10-15) Druin, Allison; Bederson, Ben; Boltman, Angela; Miura, Adrian; Knotts-Callahan, Debby; Platt, Mark"That's silly!" "I'm bored!" "I like that!" "Why do I have to do this?" "What is this for?" These are all important responses and questions that come from children. As our design partners in developing new technologies, children can offer bluntly honest views of their world. They have their own likes, dislikes, and needs that are not the same as adults' (Druin, Stewart, Proft, Bederson, & Hollan, 1997). As the development of new technologies for children becomes commonplace in industry and university research labs, children's input into the design and development process is critical. We need to establish new development methodologies that enable us to stop and listen, and learn to collaborate with children of all ages. In the chapter that follows, a discussion of new research methodologies will be presented. (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-98-20)Item Designing a Collaborative Finger Painting Application for Children(2000-10-06) Browne, Hilary; Bederson, Ben; Druin, Allison; Sherman, Lisa; Westerman, WayneWe describe the design and implementation of a collaborative, computer-based finger painting program for children using a new hardware input device called a Multi-Touch Surface (MTS). The MTS uses a flat surface about the size of a keyboard to track multiple, simultaneous finger motions, which we transform into paint strokes on a screen. We describe related work and explain how our program design was guided by the suggestions of children. We discuss the hardware and software of the MTS and the challenges of designing our program. Finally, we present the Finger Painting Table, a collaborative, embedded application built using the MTS, and discuss future work. KEYWORDS: Multi-Touch Surface, Finger Painting, Children, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Educational Application, Single Display Groupware (SDG) (Also corss-referenced as HCIL-TR-2000-17) (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2000-66)Item Future of Information Alliance 2011 Launch Day Four: Transparency and Boundaries(2011-11-17) Bederson, Ben; Chinoy, Ira; Chowdhury, Abdur; Czerwinski, Mary; Druin, Allison; Jaeger, Paul; Khamis, Sahar; Parks, Sheri; Russell, DanThis program explored both the promise and peril of an era in which free-flowing information raises issues of security, privacy, ownership, in which the response of governments has included both improved access and obstacles to transparency, and in which the use of social media has been been able to breach the walls erected by repressive regimes in some places but not in others. The program featured a panel of accomplished faculty members (Bederson, Khamis and Jaeger) with expertise ranging from e-government to mobile computing to the role of social media in the unfolding "Arab Spring." Following their presentations, the speakers discussed the issues of transparency and boundaries with "Visiting Future-ists" Chowdhury, Czerwinski and Russell.