With great excitement and appreciation, I have been playing with my Android Dev Phone for the past several hours. It arrived today and I must say I am excited about the learning curve that came with it. lol

Special thanks to Hilary, Raquel, Meghan, and Prasenjit @ Google for finding a device for me.

So, in case you didn’t know, I am doing research on how children search the web. http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/KidsSearch. We – Beth, my research partner, and I have been traveling all around Maryland asking 7, 9, 11 year olds about their computer use and search behavior. We have learned a great deal about how they search…along with [...]

Congratulations to me! I received word just a few days ago that I won the Google Anita Borg Scholarship for the 2009-2010 school year. I was so elated to realize that a company like Google acknowledged my accomplishments. I must say that I hadn’t realized how much I had attempted to work on in my [...]