Credentials - Prof. Bederson has a long-standing interest in applying technology to societal challenges. Two major current related projects are the International Children’s Digital Library, which offers more than 800 complete children’s books in 34 languages in a child-friendly interface on the web. This brings up issues of rights and universal usability. He also works on a project to look at usability of modern voting machines. He has helped develop a number of computer applications including Photomesa, a program to manage digital photographs. Bederson and his wife, Associate Professor Allison Druin, are featured on WAMU-FM's Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about computer issues ("The Computer Guys").
Contact - 301-405-2764 (office); bederson@cs.umd.edu
Web Site - http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/bederson/

Allison Druin - associate professor, Department of Information Studies and director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab (Institute for Advanced Computer Studies - UMIACS), University of Maryland Expertise - children's information access and use, digital libraries for children, user interface design, children's storytelling processes and tools, computers in the classroom. Credentials - Prof. Druin is the team leader and founder of the Kids Design The Future program, part of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. It "enables a child to do something they never dreamed of" which is to have a voice in how technology that they will use is developed. Druin has written extensively about kids and technology development. She is also a member of The United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, a White House appointment. Druin, and husband Ben Bederson, are featured on WAMU-FM's Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about computer issues ("The Computer Guys"). Contact - 301-405-5924 (office); allisond@umd.edu Web Site - http://ischool.umd.edu/people/druin/index.shtml Personal Home Page: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~allisond/

Credentials - Prof. Norman has studied human/computer interaction for a number of years and applied that research in a number of areas. He wrote the first book about computer menu selection in 1991 called The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface. More recently, he has been studying the user interface design of electronic classrooms. His work to develop what he calls "Hypercourseware" led to his online book Teaching in the Switched on Classroom: An Introduction to Electronic Education and HyperCourseware.
Contact - 301-405-5924 (office); klnorman@umd.edu
Web Site - http://lap.umd.edu/lap/People/kent_norman/index.html