Research Team

Principal investigators

  • Dr. Allison Druin
    Project Director, UMD
    Human-Computer Interaction Lab
    and College of Information Studies
    A.V. Williams Building
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD 20742
    allisond@umiacs.umd.edu
    +1 (301) 405-7406
  • Dr. Benjamin B. Bederson
    Technology Project Director
    Human-Computer Interaction Lab
    and Computer Science Department
    A.V. Williams Building
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD 20742
    bederson@cs.umd.edu
    +1 (301) 405-2764
  • Dr. Ann Carlson Weeks
    Director for Collection Research/Use
    Human-Computer Interaction Lab
    and College of Information Studies
    Room 4121D Hornbake
    University of Maryland
    College Park, MD 20742-4345
    acweeks@umd.edu
    +1 (301) 405-2060

Student research assistants

  • Amy Datsko
    Amy assists ICDL users with questions about the web site and responds to other feedback. She also works with the ICDL Ambassadors program.
  • Sheri Massey
    Sheri is a doctoral student at the College of Information Studies and studies how kids from all over the world use the ICDL.
  • Tracy Masterson
    Tracy is an MLS student at the College of Information Studies who scans and processes books for the ICDL.

Staff researchers

  • Sabrina Liao
    Sabrina creates art, videos, and works on visual design problems.
  • Mary Ramos
    Mary works in an administrative capacity, assisting in collection development and copyright management.
  • Anne Rose
    Anne designs and manages the database that holds the books in the ICDL collection. She also coordinates digital book processing and cataloging efforts.

Kidsteam

Alumna