Making From Home: Reflections on Crafting Tangible Interfaces for Stay-at-home Living

Jones, Lee; Nousir, Alaa; Chen, Renee; Liu, Anne; Donovan, Meara; Wallace, Eliza; Nabil, Sara

doi:10.1145/3569009.3572744

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Making It Work—Experiences of Women Who Engage in Technological Making at Home

Regal,

Smit,

França

et al. 2024

Interacting With Computers

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This paper presents the results of a 5-month diary study into the practices and routines that develop around technological making in the home, particularly focused on the experiences of women, as they continue to be an underrepresented group in the maker community. In this study, we provided participants with an entry-level electronics making kit. Over the course of twenty weeks, the participants documented their making activities via photos, videos, text messages and taking part in interviews. By means of interpretative phenomenological analysis, we identified six core themes related to women’s experiences with technological making in the home. These experiences ranged from positive—feeling challenged, proud of accomplishments, inspired; to negative—feeling frustrated, guilty due to lack of progress or confused and overwhelmed. These experiences are discussed and contextualized by aspects related to hurdles experienced by the participants, and success factors that contribute to proactive engagement with making in the home. Research Highlights Twenty-week photo diary study and interpretative phenomenological analysis. Identification of six core themes based on empirical data on experiences with technological making in the home context. Discourse around thresholds to engage women in technological making and the maker community. Design and research directions to reduce barriers in technological making.

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