black ears toblonde cats:

a call to action for HCI

Ben Bederson & Allison DruinHuman-Computer Interaction LabComputer Science Dept. & iSchoolUniversity of Maryland

“Once upon a time a huge tribe of cats lived in a remote village. A river divided the village in two. Black cats lived on one bank and blonde cats lived on the other… In summer and autumn, a black cat ruled the village and in spring and winter, a blonde cat ruled the village.”

-Black ears … blonde ears (2002)

“I think you can hear me now. If you are all willing to listen to each other, we will be able to solve our problems. Only when you can do that will we be happy and able to live in peace.”

-Black ear … blonde ear (2002)in www.childrenslibrary.org

The Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestineby Khaled Jumm’a, Illustrated by Foutinie Dedwase

futuremobile

ofHCI

hugenatural language (and vision)

physical computing

context awareness

user

social networks

generated content

privacy awareness

1. Design for the World2. Partner for Deepest Change3. Support Creative Expression4. Balance Understanding Innovation & Real

World

greater…

shipping books are difficult

conflict

the needs of the world have never been

impacted by…20th century models of

&expensive

educational services & materialsaccess to

has declined

intolerance & prejudice

children are

poverty

school resourcesdisease

continues…

[1 Design for the World] 2 3 4

International Children’s Digital Library

research led by the UMD

3,000,000 unique visitors

books in 51 languages

[Druin et al., 2001; Hourcade et al., 2002; Druin, 2005; Hutchinson, 2007; Druin et al., 2007; Massey et al., 2006]

website in 16 languages

150,000 pages of digitized books100,000 visitors per month

now a non-profit foundation

users in 200+ countries

[1 Design for the World] 2 3 4

DEMO

funded by the World Bank

[Druin, Bederson et al., 2009]

International Children’s Digital Library

Mongolia

Phase I UrbanPhase II RuralPhase III Mobile

partnering with Mongolian

adding digital accessto traditional literacy project

Ministry of Education

[1 Design for the World] 2 3 4

Mobile libraryA

iPhone

goes children are

enables access

where

[1 Design for the World] 2 3 4

ICDL for

Call for Action: Design for the World

based on HCIL’s annual service project

Service projects around the world

Master’s projects, Ph.D. work, sabbatical work

HCI Peace Corps

1. Design for the World

2. Partner for Deepest Change3. Support Creative Expression4. Balance Understanding Innovation & Real

World

PartnersforChange

Gov/Non-Profits

children

elders USERSvoters

Industry

developing countries families

U.S. National Park Service

Google

Microsoft

UNICEFOne Laptop per Child

LeapFrog

Sesame Workshop

IntelZumobi

Fisher Price

Chevron

NASA

PBS

Discovery Channel

World Bank

Mongolian Ministry of Education

1 [2 Partner …] 3 4

Design Process

user

tester

informant

design partner

[Druin, 2002]

Roles for the

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Partnering Methods

Sticky Note Critique[Druin, 2002]

Low-tech Prototyping[Druin, et al., In press]

Mixing ideas[Guha et al., 2004]

Iterative Design

with Children

1 [2 Partner …] 3 4

National Park Service

share ideas about

[Chipman et al., 2006]

the outdoors

nature walks with

in-context technology

National Park visitors

collaboration enhanced park experience

1 [2 Partner …] 3 4

Google

HCILPartnershipsAmazon Web Services

IBM

Gov/Non-Profits

Industry

U.S. National Park Service

Microsoft

UNICEFOne Laptop per Child

Sesame Workshop

IntelZumobi

Fisher Price

PBS

World Bank

Mongolian Ministry of Education

Washington Hospital Center

Samsung

Lockheed Martin

1 [2 Partner …] 3 4

highlights HCI community’s partnerships

Call for Action:

Partner for Deepest Change

CHI award…

Most unlikely set of partners

HCI Partnership Award

1. Design for the World2. Partner for Deepest Change

3. Support Creative Expression4. Balance Understanding Innovation & Real

World

Developed by 106 children& 24 adults from

Supported by EU, i3

KidPad:

[Boltman et al., 2002; Hourcade et al., 2002; Druin, 2001; Stanton et al., 2001; Benford et al., 2000; Druin et al., 1997]

zoomingstorytelling

Sweden, England, & US

Experimental Schools Environment

1 2 [3 Creative Expression] 4

Intergenerational Stories

1 2 [3 Creative Expression] 4

sharing iPhone between Grandparents and children

stories

editing ICDLb o o k s

drawing, taking pictures, writing, etc.can be used to edit

to create new stories from existing books

Mobile

or create a new storyDEMO

worldwide collecting,

UNICEF

[http://jonnyj.net/interangible/archives/175]

preserving, & sharing personal stories

voices of everyone, everywhere

communicate locally heard globallybut be

all cultures, all languages, at all times

1 [2 Partner …] 3 4

Call for Action:

Support Creative Expression

collection of stories on how HCI supportscreative expression

possible YouTube collectiontraveling exhibit in museums, art schools, galleries

shows next generation of creativity[CC 2007]

HCI Stories

1. Design for the World2. Partner for Deepest Change3. Support Creative Expression

4. Balance Understanding Innovation & Real World

& real worldbalance understanding

innovation

1 2 3 [4 Balance …]

socialweb scale

1 2 3 [4 Balance …]

visualizaze

Translating

1 2 3 [4 Balance …]

Monol ingua l speakers

ICDLbooks

Goal: 1,000,000 b o o k - l a n g u a g e s

Human-DistributedComputationfor t r a n s l a t i o n

Call for Action: Balance …

International fund to support the best HCI ideasearly, early funding for research ideas that can

have real-world impact

expand Y Combinator vision

HCI Incubator