The evolution of the international children's digital library searching and browsing interface

Proceeding of the 2006 Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC '06

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 105-112

  Hutchinson, Hilary Browne ^a   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a   Druin, Allison ^a,b  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Browse; Category browser; Children; Digital library; Search

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; ONLINE SEARCHING; USER INTERFACES; WEB BROWSERS;

BROWSING TOOLS; CHILDREN;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 34247361222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1139073.1139101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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