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The International Children's Digital Library: Description and Analysis of First Use
(2003-01-21)
In this paper we describe the first version of the International Children's
Digital Library (ICDL). As a five-year research project, its mission is to
enable children to access and read an international collection of ...
SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation
(2003-01-21)
We present a novel tree browser that builds on the conventional node link tree
diagrams. It adds dynamic rescaling of branches of the tree to best fit the
available screen space, optimized camera movement, and the use ...
Building KidPad: An Application for Children's Collaborative Storytelling
(2003-06-04)
Collaborating in small groups can be beneficial to children's learning and
socializing. However, there is currently little computer support for
children's collaborative activities. This was our motivation for
building ...
A Collaborative Digital Library for Children: A Descriptive Study of Children's Collaborative Behavior and Dialogue
(2003-01-21)
Over the last three years, we have been developing a collaborative digital
library interface where two children can collaborate using multiple mice on a
single computer to access multimedia information concerning animals. ...
The International Children's Library: Viewing Digital Books Online
(2003-06-04)
Reading books plays an important role in children's cognitive and social
development. However, many children do not have access to diverse
collections of books due to the limited resources of their community
libraries. ...
SlideBar: Analysis of a linear input device
(2003-06-04)
The SlideBar is a physical linear input device for absolute position
control of one degree of freedom, consisting of a physical slider with a
graspable knob positioned near or attached to the keyboard. Its range of ...
Jazz: An Extensible 2D+Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java
(1999-05-25)
Jazz is a new general-purpose toolkit that supports applications using zooming
object-oriented 2D graphics. It is built entirely in Java using Java2D, and
thus runs on all platforms that support Java 2. It supports ...
Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and its Effectiveness
(2003-04-04)
Thumbnail images provide users of image retrieval and browsing systems
with a method for quickly scanning large numbers of images. Recognizing the
objects in an image is important in many retrieval tasks, but ...
Designing Storytelling Technologies to Encourage Collabortion Between Young Children
(1999-12-08)
We describe the iterative design of two collaborative storytelling
technologies for young children, KidPad and the Klump. We focus on the idea of
designing interfaces to subtly encourage collaboration so that children ...
Browsing Icons: A Task-Based Approach for a Visual Web History
(2003-01-21)
We have implemented a task and session based visual web history tool called
Browsing Icons that dynamically draws animated graphs of the user's paths
through the web. Using a proxy, it can be attached to any common web ...