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

Staff researchers

• Anne Rose
  Anne maintains the website and implements the library functionality. She also designs and manages the database that holds the books in the ICDL collection. She is also responsible for the digital book processing and cataloging efforts, including licensing. She also manages the volunteer translators.

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.
• 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
  

Kidsteam

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