First of all, as a new chair of the AMD TC, I would like to thank the former chair, Dr. Zhengyou Zhang for his role in leading our community and his initiation of a new IEEE transaction on AMD. Also, on the behalf of the AMD TC, I appreciate your continuous supports for our activities. The AMD TC is the largest one among IEEE CIS TCs, (see http://ieee-cis.org/technical/welcome/). Therefore, our...

As an extension of the International Children’s Digital Library, the ICDLCommunities project will enable children’s communities to develop around the book collection, build tools that allow intercultural communication between children without the use of machine translation, and promote cross-cultural understanding. It will provide a supportive, safe environment for children (aged 7-11) who spea...

Sound understanding by end-users (health professionals and support staff) of key e-health principles and challenges is essential for the safe, effective, and sustainable use of health informatics systems. This is separate from, and ideally a precursor to, training on a specific system. However, hitherto this aspect has been little understood or addressed. Over the last few years, the concept of...

This study describes how elementary school students search for and select books using a digital library. This work was done as part of the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL) project in order to explore and discover new directions for the development of digital library interfaces for children ages 3-13. Children used two versions of the ICDL software to search for, select, and read ...

The paper describes the International Centre for Distance Learning which is located in the Open University's Institute of Educational Technology. An essential resource of the Centre built up over 15 years is its digital library which includes information on 1,200 distance education institutions, 31,000 courses and 10,000 abstracts from the literature of distance learning. It is available on the...