Crisis Couture: A Study on Motivations and Practices of Mask Makers During A Crisis

Buford, Mikayla; Ranganathan, Vaishnavi; Roseway, Asta; Seyed, Teddy

doi:10.1145/3461778.3462016

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“…Increasingly, textile crafting communities are incorporating technology and moving online [57,96], a direction that has been further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic [12,44]. For example, even before the pandemic, individuals could learn technical craft skills through online tutorials and video platforms [96].…”

Section: Social Practices In Textile Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Learning with Stitch Samplers: Exploring Stitch Samplers as Contextual Instructions for E-textile Tutorials

Jones

Girouard

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Section: Social Practices In Textile Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…During the COVID-19 pandemic makers made use of these digital platforms for community making initiatives such as DIY cloth masks [12]. Online and video tutorials also became the dominant form of running synchronous craft workshops as in-person workshops were no longer safe [44].…”

Section: Social Practices In Textile Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning with Stitch Samplers: Exploring Stitch Samplers as Contextual Instructions for E-textile Tutorials

Jones

Girouard

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Limited research during the lockdown restrictions (and largely because of the restrictions) looked at supporting people working from home [52], studying at home [1], prototyping tangible interfaces at home [7], or connecting with distant loved ones [20,57], but all using screen-based technology. 'Making' during the pandemic focused on the design and rapid fabrication of face-masks [5,15]. Design fiction has proved to encourage people to communicate sensitive topics, such as reimaging how interpersonal relationships will look like post-COVID [58].…”

Section: Social Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the work of Crisis Couture [5], researchers explored how makers wanted their designs to be "a statement of empowerment", and how designers support people in ways they individually feel and choose to be protected while wearing a mask. Lee et al [30] devised a design process in the form of turn-based collaborative games for embroidery crafters to enable 'play-by-mail' alongside in-person players.…”

Section: Maker-culture During Covidmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVIDware: Designing Interactive Everyday Things as Tangible Homeware for Social Isolation

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Chen²,

Liu³

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This paper describes our collaborative journey of creating everyday interactive artefacts to help us think, reflect, and live through self-isolation. Through a co-design approach, we designed interactive homeware objects (that we collectively refer to as ‘COVIDware’) to address the challenges of isolation during the pandemic. Five artefacts were developed by self-isolated designers as interactive art installations. We discuss how each creator reflected on her design concept, process, and encounter through concepts of critical making, speculation, and engagement via in-the-isolated-wild deployments. By empowering early researchers/enthusiasts to design ‘with’ smart-materials, and off-the-shelf items, we reflect on how these homey interfaces can enhance people’s wellbeing beyond screen-based interactions. Despite not collaborating in the making process, our findings from the designer’s making process show how all the designed artefacts shared attributes of biophilic design, imperfection, and unconventional interactions with the overarching goal of promoting wellbeing, and meaningful connection with nature, self, and others.

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“…Increasingly, textile crafting communities are incorporating technology and moving online [168,286], a direction that has been further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic [31,134]. For example, even before the pandemic, individuals could learn technical craft skills through online tutorials and video platforms [286].…”

Section: Social Practices In Textile Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-textile Learning Scaffolds: Supports for Novices Learning E-textile Concepts and Techniques

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Electronic textiles (e-textiles) combine the conductive properties of metallic threads with increasingly small computers and microcontrollers to create textiles that are interactive. E-textiles enable new opportunities such as devices that are strong yet flexible, and the ability to use more accessible crafting tools and materials. They also allow technology to blend into the textiles we have in our lives, such as those on our bodies and in our homes. In education, e-textiles are incorporated into curriculums for how they can increase participation in physical computing, while also enabling new creative and expressive applications. Yet blending the fields of physical computing and textiles is not simple, since each has its own culture of terminology, design and prototyping practices, tools, techniques, and methods of documentation.The goal of this thesis is to support beginners in learning the hybrid craft of e-textiles with e-textile learning scaffolds. Rather than building e-textiles from scratch, e-textile learning scaffolds are activities for supporting novices as they learn e-textile concepts and practice the tacit aspects of the craft. One central research question runs throughout the projects in this thesis: "How can we scaffold e-textile ideation and experiential learning with tangible objects and activities?" This thesis contributes five studies, each providing a tangible scaffold or activity, or scaffolding recommendations, for teaching e-textiles in courses or workshops. The design of these i learning scaffolds focused on how they could be accessible to educators by prioritizing reproducibility, re-use, and low-cost.• To my supervisor: Thank you for being there for all the twists and turns this PhD has taken and for your guidance along the way.• To my committee members, publication co-authors, and peer reviewers: Taking the time to read someone's work and provide feedback is always a gift. Thank you! • To my study participants: Thank you so much for providing your time and expertise to this research. I have learned so much from my time spent with all of you. • Most of the work in this thesis happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. A big thank you to my friends and family who helped me through this incredibly difficult time. • To the PhD student who reads this, since only PhD students spend time reading other thesis documents: I hope you find joy in your thesis journey -wishing you all the best! vii Ubiquitous computing Computers that are 'ubiquitous' in our environment, i.e. distributed and within all objects [301]. Zone of proximal development (ZPD) The area or "zone" where learning can occur. If a task is too hard, an individual will become frustrated, and equally if a task is too easy an individual will not learn anything [96].

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Crisis Couture: A Study on Motivations and Practices of Mask Makers During A Crisis

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Learning with Stitch Samplers: Exploring Stitch Samplers as Contextual Instructions for E-textile Tutorials

Learning with Stitch Samplers: Exploring Stitch Samplers as Contextual Instructions for E-textile Tutorials

COVIDware: Designing Interactive Everyday Things as Tangible Homeware for Social Isolation

E-textile Learning Scaffolds: Supports for Novices Learning E-textile Concepts and Techniques

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