Research Team

Principal investigators

• Dr. Allison Druin
  Project Director, UMD
  Human-Computer Interaction Lab
  and College of Information Studies
  A.V. Williams Building
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742
  allison@childrenslibrary.org
  +1 (301) 405-7406
• Dr. Benjamin B. Bederson
  Technology Project Director
  Human-Computer Interaction Lab
  and Computer Science Department
  A.V. Williams Building
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742
  bederson@childrenslibrary.org
  +1 (301) 405-2764
• Dr. Ann Carlson Weeks
  Director for Collection Research/Use
  Human-Computer Interaction Lab
  and College of Information Studies
  Room 4121D Hornbake
  University of Maryland
  College Park, MD 20742-4345
  ann@childrenslibrary.org
  +1 (301) 405-2060

Student research assistants

• Chang Hu
  Chang is a doctoral student in Computer Science. Chang is researching technologies to process books for PopoutText and ClearText.
• Alex Quinn
  Alex is a doctoral student in Computer Science. Alex is exploring mobile ICDL applications.
• Sheri Massey
  Sheri is a doctoral student at the College of Information Studies and studies how kids from all over the world use the ICDL.
• Swetha Reddy
  Swetha is a masters student at the College of Information Studies. She helps process books for the ICDL.
• Greg Walsh
  Greg is a doctoral student in the College of Information Studies.  He is exploring ways to use the ICDL in schools, libraries and at home
  

Staff researchers

• Anne Rose
  Anne designs and manages the database that holds the books in the ICDL collection. She also coordinates digital book processing and cataloging efforts.

Kidsteam

• College Park, MD, USA
• Chicago, IL, USA
• La Ceiba, Honduras
• Munich, Germany
• Wellington, New Zealand

Alumna

• Aaron Clamage
  Aaron researched ways to create books from children's stories.
  
• Amy Datsko
  Amy assisted ICDL users with questions about the web site and responded to other feedback. She also worked with the ICDL Ambassadors program.
  
• Hilary Hutchinson
  Hilary researched on and makes Web pages.
  
• Laura Hadley
  Laura scanned and processed books for the ICDL.
• Leshell Hatley
  Leshell updated the book processing system.
• Sabrina Liao
  Sabrina created art, videos, and worked on visual design problems.
• Tracy Masterson
  Tracy scanned and processed books for the ICDL.
  
• Mary Ramos
  Mary worked in an administrative capacity, assisting in collection development and copyright management.
• Kara Reuter
  Kara redesigned the ICDL webpage and researched how to make books in the ICDL easier to find.