In Boulder, Barbara Buttenfield is working with Computer Science Professor Clayton Lewis and his graduate class on interface design in two research areas. The class involves students working in small groups of three or four with other campus faculty whose research incorporates user interface design and testing. The students are expected to work on all phases of design, including assessing user requirements, planning and implementing a prototype design, and running initial evaluation testing. Two groups of students (8 out of a class of 25) have asked to work on ADL projects. One team will develop a prototype for the Denver Public Library historical photo georeferencing work. The other team will work on distributed transaction logging, testing a stand-alone JAVA prototype to study how to streamline a demographic survey in a distributed client server environment. The strategy under consideration is to elicit information in stages, as opposed to all at the start or finish of a session.
Barbara Buttenfield continues to serve as academic advisor to the Blackhawk Middle School's project on GIS and the Internet. George Zack is the Science Education Coordinator at Blackhawk School. His 1997 proposal to U.S. West ``Teaching With Technology'' Program was funded. The concept in the proposal is to teach students to create their own local databases, and georeference their ground truth with spatial data (maps and satellite images) downloaded from the Internet.