During the past decade, there has been a surge in the popularity of the digital book. We invite librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers, HCI researchers, and other interested stakeholders to join us in discussing user interface issues related to the digital book. Our goal is to better understand the many questions that surround the design and creation of digital books. What advantages does the digital book have over the physical book and vice versa? Should books that are "born digital" be treated differently than those that are scanned? How does the type of book or its anticipated use influence the design (e.g., lengthy text book vs. picture book)? What about the audience (e.g., children vs. adults vs. elderly)? What role does display size play? By answering these questions today, we can better create digital books for tomorrow.

Organizers

• Anne Rose, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, rose@cs.umd.edu
• Juan-Pablo Hourcade, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, jpablo@cs.umd.edu
• Ann Carlson Weeks, College of Information Studies, aw130@umail.umd.edu

Want to participate?

1. Submit a position statement (max one page) to rose@cs.umd.edu stating your interest and what you would present at the workshop.
   
2. When your participation is confirmed, register using the Symposium and Open House registration form. We hope you will also join us for the main event, the Symposium and Open House May 31.

We plan to limit the number of participants to 20-30 so we will give first consideration to participants who are actively involved in research or development in this area.

Itinerary

Participants

• Susan Allison, National Cancer Institute, allisosu@mail.nih.gov
• Ben Bederson, University of Maryland/HCIL, bederson@cs.umd.edu
• J. P Behrens, jpbehrens@netzero.com
• Aaron Clamage, University of Maryland/HCIL, aclamage@wam.umd.edu
• Allison Druin, University of Maryland/HCIL, allisond@umiacs.umd.edu
• Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, mk235@umail.umd.edu
• Sanjay Koyani, National Cancer Institute, koyanis@mail.nih.gov
• Joe Nguyen, joenguyen@mail.com
• Erica Olmsted, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Erica.L.Olmstead@census.gov
• Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University, olsen@cs.byu.edu
• Wendy Queen, The Johns Hopkins University Press, wendy@chaos.press.jhu.edu
• Kara Reuter, University of Maryland/CLIS, kreuter@wam.umd.edu
• Ramachandran Suresh, NASA/Mayur Technologies, suresh@mayurtech.com
• Yoshifumi Takayama, University of Maryland/HCIL & Toshiba, Corp., takayama@cs.umd.edu
• Irene Tseng, Gallaudet University, tsuihsia.tseng@gallaudet.edu
• Peter Wasilko, The Continuity Project, futurist@cloud9.net
• Cari Wolfson, National Cancer Institute, wolfsonc@mail.nih.gov

Related Papers

Hourcade, J., Bederson, B., Druin, A., Rose, A., Farber, A., Takayama, Y. (January 2002)
The International Children’s Digital Library: Viewing Digital Books Online
HCIL-2002-03 , CS-TR-4327 , UMIACS-TR-2002-09

Last Modified June 10, 2002 11:25 AM rose@cs.umd.edu