Answer Garden: a tool for growing organizational memory
COCS '90 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems
Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
Children as our technology design partners
The design of children's technology
Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading group
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Effects of annotations on student readers and writers
DL '00 Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Web-based scholarship: annotating the digital library
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Dynamic digital libraries for children
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Semantics happen: knowledge building in spatial hypertext
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Of Two Minds
Hyper/Text/Theory
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Growing up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
Simplifying annotation support for real-world-settings: a comparative study of active reading
Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Sharing encountered information: digital libraries get a social life
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Exploring the relationship between personal and public annotations
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Supporting sociable literacy in the international children's digital library
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community
Encapsulating streams of consciousness into the international children's digital library
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Interaction design and children: building a community
Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Asynchronous collaborative writing through annotations
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Reading in the wild: sociable literacy in practice
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children
The social life of books in the humane library
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Leveraging rich accessible documents on the web
W4A '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Most digital libraries (DLs) necessarily focus on the complex issues that arise when library collections are freed from their physical anchors in buildings and on paper. Typical investigations look at supporting adults in work settings, such as school or research. Much less attention has been paid to younger generations of readers. As ever more digital venues cater to youngsters' attentions, a role for the DL as a catalyst of social interactions around traditional literacy practices begins to take shape. Based on prior research on annotation systems, constructive hypertexts, and computer support for cooperative work coupled with our contextual inquiries with children, we have developed a prototype for a digital book that supports social interactions through annotations. By placing and sharing notes, groups of readers transform the book from an artifact into a living record of communal experience. A system of support for marks and notes in the context of reading for pleasure can turn the digital library book into a "practiced place," a location that is not only accessible, but also welcoming, engaging and supportive of the activities children are interested in and therefore likely to engage in. Our experience with Alph, a prototype book-reader supporting a range of rhetorical marks and note-writing, suggests that future DLs need to look beyond augmenting work-based literacy practices by creating dynamic and social reading environments.