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Allison Druin
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 214
Citations - 12314
Allison Druin is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Participatory design & Cooperative inquiry. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 212 publications receiving 11487 citations. Previous affiliations of Allison Druin include Pratt Institute & University of Maryland College of Information Studies.
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Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families
Hilary Hutchinson,Wendy E. Mackay,Bo Westerlund,Benjamin B. Bederson,Allison Druin,Catherine Plaisant,Michel Beaudouin-Lafon,Stéphane Conversy,Helen Evans,Heiko Hansen,Nicolas Roussel,Björn Eiderbäck +11 more
TL;DR: A new method for use in the process of co-designing technologies with users called technology probes, which are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies with three interdisciplinary goals: the social science goal of understanding the needs and desires of users in a real-world setting, the engineering goal of field-testing the technology, and the design goal of inspiring users and researchers to think about new technologies.
Journal Article
The role of children in the design of new technology
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for understanding the roles that children can play in the technology design process, particularly in regards to designing technologies that support learning, is presented, where each role, user, tester, informant and design partner has been defined based upon a review of the literature and the author's own laboratory research experiences.
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Cooperative inquiry: developing new technologies for children with children
TL;DR: The techniques of cooperative inquiry will be described along with a theoretical framework that situates this work in the HCI literature and two examples of technology resulting from this approach will be presented.
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Single display groupware: a model for co-present collaboration
TL;DR: This paper introduces a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other, and describes themodel, comparing it to more traditional remote collaboration and describing the requirements that SDG places on computer technology.
Book
The design of children's technology
TL;DR: The authors discusses how and why new technologies are being designed, introduces the diversity of approaches that university researchers use in their research methodologies, and explains the range of technologies being created for children.