Reading books plays an important role in children’s cognitive and social development. However, many children do not have access to diverse collections of books due to the limited resources of their community libraries. We have begun to address this issue by creating a large-scale digital archive of children’s books, the International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL). In this paper we discuss o...

OBJECTIVE To describe the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders Diagnostic Manual for Infants and Young Children (ICDL-DMIC) created by representatives of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders. METHOD A description of the rationale of the different sections of the ICDL-DMIC dealing with infants and young children, focusing on a class...

Welcome to the first issue of the AMD TC Newsletter in 2005. The highlight of this issue is the dialog column guest-moderated by Olaf Sporns: " What are Potential Principles for the Autonomous Development of Value and Motivation? " I would like to thank Olaf and all contributing authors of this column for their insights. The AMD TC Newsletter welcomes more contributions from the AMD TC on resea...

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 7th International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008) in Monterey, California, USA. ICDL is a unique interdisciplinary conference, with latest research results that cover challenging gaps among computer science, robotics, psychology, and neuroscience to address the challenging subject of computational autonomous development, both nat...

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...