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Özkan, Birce

doi:10.1145/2800835.2801675

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“…Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan is among those who have integrated circuits into his designs, and in 2007 (Design Museum, n.d.) his innovations were recognised as his LED dress that glows in the dark won him the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Award. Ozkan (2015), the designer involved in this study, also produces interactive garments inspired by nature's responsiveness. Ozkan's interactive design Fall ( 2015) is a dress equipped with sensors that detect temperature as well as light levels, and when light is low, the dress is programmed to shed leaves mimicking trees in autumn (Ozkan, 2015).…”

Section: Paper Circuitry Interactive Picturebooks and Maker Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ozkan (2015), the designer involved in this study, also produces interactive garments inspired by nature's responsiveness. Ozkan's interactive design Fall ( 2015) is a dress equipped with sensors that detect temperature as well as light levels, and when light is low, the dress is programmed to shed leaves mimicking trees in autumn (Ozkan, 2015). These interactive and sensorial experiences via e-textile translate into reading as well.…”

Section: Paper Circuitry Interactive Picturebooks and Maker Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interactive Storytelling through LEDs and Paper Circuits: Tapping into Materials and Technology in Children’s Literature Education

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Özkan²,

Alaca³

2021

JLE

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How can interactive technology enhance children’s literature? How can new materials and technology be incorporated into courses on children’s literature at the university level feeding upon the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)? What is the best way to embed new materials such as paper circuits into a children’s narrative? This article offers a review of an experiment conducted at a liberal arts college where students were provided the theoretical and practice-based knowledge for designing children’s picturebooks, then asked to introduce circuit technology to their picturebook design. The upper-level course admitted students from all disciplines, such as computer science, psychology, literature, medicine, and media and visual arts, which resulted in lively exchanges in a group of people from diverse academic backgrounds. Regardless of their strengths, students participated in the hands-on workshop supported by a designer and the course instructor to learn about electric circuits, copper tape, and LEDs, and seek ways to adapt them into the page structure and the narrative sequence. They explored how to fuse light to text and image to tell a story and facilitate engagement in a children’s book. This study builds upon the Maker Movement and borrows technology from HCI, fusing the two movements into children’s books. As such, students were asked to assess the potential uses of HCI technology in art and design, book arts and seek ways to apply those technologies to enrich children’s engagement during reading. Students revealed that this request motivated them to think creatively as they explored ways to transform children’s literature. Thus, the course brought theory and practice together with electric circuits to offer a novel way to contemplate children’s literature.

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Section: Paper Circuitry Interactive Picturebooks and Maker Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paper Circuitry Interactive Picturebooks and Maker Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive Storytelling through LEDs and Paper Circuits: Tapping into Materials and Technology in Children’s Literature Education

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Özkan²,

Alaca³

2021

JLE

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In Search for Design Elements: A New Perspective for Employing Ethnography in Human-Computer Interaction Design Research

Rapp¹

2020

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Design ethnography has been widely used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to understand people's everyday behaviors, in order to build technologies capable of meeting users' needs. Building on top of the recent debate on ethnography within HCI, this article proposes to employ reflexivity and theoretical pluralism to ground a new way of using design ethnography in HCI, directly envisioning novel designs during the fieldwork. Inspired by design practices like biomimicry, I describe the figure of the ethno-designer, a digital design ethnographer who dives into 'successful' virtual environments in search for insightful design patterns, with the purpose of creating new designs in other, even distant, contexts. In this perspective, the fieldwork becomes an incessant source of inspiration for identifying effective 'design elements', understanding how they work and their 'experiential effects', and producing design implications to create novel technologies across multiple application domains.

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