Allison Druin, with Alex Kruskal, Hanne Olsen, Isabella Revett, Thomas Plaisant Schwenn, Lauren Sumida, & Rebecca Wagner Designers of the Future This column was written by my colleagues at the University of Maryland. They also happen to go to elementary schools in the local Maryland area, but they join me two afternoons a week in our Human-Computer Interaction Lab. For the past year they have been my design partners in making new technologies for children. They work with me, along with computer scientists, educators, and artists. The other day I asked my colleagues (ages 7-10 years old) if they might want to contribute to the SIGCHI Bulletin. I explained that I thought it might be fun for them to share their thoughts with other people who think about kids and computers. They agreed, and so what follows are their thoughts about computers: what they want changed, what they like, and what they think should be possible in the future. lots more. They could just talk to it and it would do what you say. It will only do what you say if you set it to do that. We could draw pictures on it. It would have a
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