Enroll me!: a portable device to facilitate homeless student enrollment

We are designing an information transfer device to expedite the enrollment of homeless children to schools. Homeless children change schools often, seriously disrupting their educational experience. Our design uses existing, familiar technology to unobtrusively facilitate the enrollment process for both the school staff and the homeless parents. Keywords Homeless Education, School Enrollment, Information Transfer ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI): Miscellaneous.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Eugene Chang, Xi Zhu, Hillary Elmore, Jun Youp Kim
• Keywords: CHI 2008, Homeless Children, Homeless Parents, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Homeless Education