A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In
The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …

After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global
poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion …

Children are increasingly using computer technologies as reflected in reports of computer
use in schools in the United States. Given the greater exposure of children to these …

Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which
groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information online …

Children are one of the largest new user groups of mobile technology--from phones to micro-
laptops to electronic toys. These products are both lauded and criticized, especially when it …

The face-to-face computer-supported collaborative learning has emerged as an important
strategy to elementary students' learning. Few studies have explicitly incorporated the …

International development is concerned with making life better for the least privileged people
of the world. Since the 1990s, HCI has engaged increasingly with development through an …

Literacy is one of the great challenges in the develo** world. But universal education is an
unattainable dream for those children who lack access to quality educational resources such …

Low educational levels hinder economic empowerment in develo** countries. We make
the case that educational games can impact children in the develo** world. We report on …

We describe our experiences co-designing low-cost Virtual Reality-augmented learning
experiences with and for an after-school learning center in Mumbai, India that caters to low …