We present Talking Points, an urban orientation system based on the idea that an individual's walking journey can be enhanced by providing contextual information about points of interest (POIs) along their route. Our formative research revealed numerous ways to provide serendipitous and task-critical information for both sighted and visually impaired users as they navigate through an urban environment on foot. Based on this, we developed a prototype system comprised of the following: an unobtrusive mobile device to present the user with contextual information; a socially maintained online database containing information about POIs; software that is accessible via both a graphical and a speech user interface; and location "tags" to be detected by the unobtrusive device. This socially maintained urban orientation and contextual information system offers relevant, dynamic, and up-to-date information, a combination which may not otherwise be accessible.

We introduce a model for supporting collaborative work between people that are physically close to each other. We call this model Single Display Groupware (SDG). In this paper, we describe the model, comparing it to more traditional remote collaboration, We describe the requirements that SDG places on computer technology, and our understanding of the benefits and costs of SDG systems. Finally, we describe a prototype SDG system that we built and the results of a usability test we ran with 60 elementary school children.

Article KidPad: a design collaboration between children, technologists, and educators Share on Authors: Allison Druin Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New MexicoView Profile , Jason Stewart Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New MexicoView Profile , David Proft Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New MexicoView Profile , Ben Bederson Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New MexicoView Profile , Jim Hollan Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Computer Science Department/College of Education, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, New MexicoView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '97: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systemsMarch 1997 Pages 463–470https://doi.org/10.1145/258549.258866Published:27 March 1997 90citation2,232DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations90Total Downloads2,232Last 12 Months62Last 6 weeks8 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

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