Electronic/computational textiles and children's crafts

Buechley, Leah; Elumeze, Nwanua; Eisenberg, Michael

doi:10.1145/1139073.1139091

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“…A third category is formed by systems aimed at children and which allow them to create their own toys and tools for storytelling, such as Plushbot [56], Craftopolis [57], e-textiles [58], kidCAD [59], and Telltable [60]. Finally, some studies have looked at the use of craft materials and crafting as augmented input for digital technologies or creative interaction with digital technologies, e.g.…”

Section: Tangible Interaction and Crafting Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid crafting: towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components

Golsteijn

Hoven

Frohlich

et al. 2013

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Abstract:With current digital technologies, people have large archives of digital media, such as images and audio files, but there are only limited means to include these media in creative practices of crafting and making. Nevertheless, studies have shown that crafting with digital media often makes these media more cherished, and that people enjoy being creative with their digital media. This paper aims to open up the way for novel means for crafting, which include digital media in integrations with physical construction, here called 'hybrid crafting'. Notions of hybrid crafting were explored to inform the design of products or systems that may support these new crafting practices. We designed 'Materialise' -a building set that allows for the inclusion of digital images and audio files in physical constructions by using tangible building blocks that can display images or play audio files, alongside a variety of other physical components -and used this set in four hands-on creative workshops to gain insight in how people go about doing hybrid crafting; if hybrid crafting is desirable; what characteristics of hybrid crafting are; and how we may design to support these practices. By reflecting on the findings from these workshops we provide concrete guidelines for the design of novel hybrid crafting products or systems that address craft context, process and result. We aim to open up the design space to designing for hybrid crafting because these new practices provide interesting new challenges and opportunities for future crafting that can lead to novel forms of creative expression.

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Section: Tangible Interaction and Crafting Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid crafting: towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components

Golsteijn

Hoven

Frohlich

et al. 2013

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Low-end systems that need to work at high speeds or high efficiencies cannot use C/C++ because the compiler produces code which is far inferior to assembly language code. [7].…”

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Design and Simulation of an Embedded Computer System for Fabric Structure

ElhadiElsideegAhmed¹,

Agoub²,

Idris³

2013

IJCA

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The ultimate goal of this research work is to provide a simulation test for a microcontroller based system to be embedded into weaving machine for Monitoring and controlling the design operation. It will replace conventional mechanical methods as a forward step in embedded systems for industrial automation and mechatronics applications.The proposed embedded system aimed to read the design parameters entered by the designer using keypad, calculate the colors repeats insertions, generate the design in sequences of binary digits and apply the design on the machine with machine status consideration. Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontroller, keypad, Liquid Cristal Display (LCD), relays, solenoids, sensors and switches are used for system design in addition to that the MikroC editor used for system programming in C language and Proteus electronics simulation environment.

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“…She also used shape memory materials and chromic materials as actuators. Buechley et al [41] explored the use of electronics combined with textiles and contributed a taxonomy of the types of activities children may engage in such projects including hardware, textile, and software related activities.…”

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“…There has also been work on games that use tangibles [142,243,294], and storytelling environments [45,61,98,275]. More recent work has begun to use new materials such as textiles, with Berglin [23] and Buechley et al [41] among the pioneers. There is also the research of Mike Eisenberg who has dedicated to developing technologies to enable children to design tangible items, and to use novel materials [81,82,83].…”

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confidence: 99%

Interaction Design and Children

Hourcade

2007

FNT in Human-Computer Interaction

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Children are increasingly using computer technologies as reflected in reports of computer use in schools in the United States. Given the greater exposure of children to these technologies, it is imperative that they be designed taking into account children's abilities, interests, and developmental needs. This survey aims to contribute toward this goal through a review of research on children's cognitive and motor development, safety issues related to technologies and design methodologies and principles. It also provides and overview of current research trends in the field of interaction design and children and identifies challenges for future research.To understand children's developmental needs it is important to be aware of the factors that affect children's intellectual development. This survey analyzes the relevance of constructivist, socio-cultural, and other modern theories with respect to the design of technologies for children. It also examines the significance of research on children's cognitive development in terms of perception, memory, symbolic representation, problem solving, and language. Since interacting with technologies most often involves children's hands this survey also reviews literature on children's fine motor development including manipulation and reaching movements. Just as it is important to know how to aid children's development it is also crucial to avoid harming development. This survey summarizes research on how technologies can negatively affect children's physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and moral development. Following is a review of design methodologies for children's technologies organized based on the roles children may play during the design process including a description of cooperative inquiry and informant design methods. This is followed by a review of design principles obtained through experiences in developing technologies for children as well as research studies. It includes design principles related to visual design (e.g., icons, visual complexity), interaction styles (e.g., direct manipulation, menus), and the use of input devices (e.g., pointing, dragging, using mouse buttons). The latter half of this survey summarizes research trends in the field of interaction design and children, grouping research efforts in the following areas: supporting creativity and problem solving, supporting collaboration and communication, accessing, gathering and exploring content, learning from simulations, supporting children with special needs, interacting with intelligent characters, supporting healthy lifestyles, learning skills, mobile, tangible, and ubiquitous computing, and designing and evaluating technologies. This survey concludes by formulating research challenges for the future and identifying three information age "plagues" children are in danger of facing in the near future.

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Electronic/computational textiles and children's crafts

Cited by 61 publications

References 6 publications

Hybrid crafting: towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components

Hybrid crafting: towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components

Design and Simulation of an Embedded Computer System for Fabric Structure

Interaction Design and Children

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