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In partnership with the Human-Computer Interaction
Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, the SIAT
kids team is helping to develop interfaces for the International
Children's Digital Library. Our team is creating prototypes
and offering design ideas to make the library work well for
pre-teens and young teens, ages 10-13. We have used contextual
inquiry to discover that our kids need different services
and different kinds of support from the library than children
who are 3 to 10 years old need. These discoveries in turn
form the foundation for new library features and new interfaces. |
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The SIAT kids team
is working with IQ
Solutions, a Rockville-based information and education company,
to help them develop a web site for the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an agency of the National Institutes
of Health. The NIDA site aims to help educate young teens,
age 11-15, about the health and other risks involved in using
drugs. By using the co-design methodology pioneered by Professor
Allison Druin at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the
University of Maryland College Park, the developers at IQ
Solutions will gain valuable insights into the kinds of content
and interactions that will appeal to their audience and support
their audience's needs. The work with IQ Solutions will take
place from March 1, 2003 until the site launches in August
2003. |
