Making Matters: Samples and Documentation in Digital Craftsmanship

Rocha, Beatriz; Spork, Janne; Andersen, Kristina

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“…The field of Digital Craftsmanship has been developing at the intersection between maker culture, HCI and design research. As a result, sample making is emerging as a key area of design research [14]. In this context, sample making is a fast-paced process of thinking-throughmaking which investigates new materials, emerging technologies, and ways of working with and through digital fabrication machines.…”

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2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Digital Craftsmanship, and other explorative design research practices using digital fabrication, depend on sample making and material exploration. Rather than describing a method of making use of the information present in samples co-inhabiting a timeline, this pictorial reports on the loose ends that may emerge out of the main journey, when taking a traveler's approach to making. By loose ends, we mean successful samples that are not suitable to the main inquiry of the present design research process, but that under certain circumstances can become starting points for new investigation lines. We describe four examples of such loose ends and introduce the concept of fellow travelers as a metaphor for describing the process of co-inhabiting a timeline and a journey while ultimately having diverging goals and outcomes.

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Tomico

2022

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“…Within e-textile research the focus has been on the second, sampler swatches, with e-textile examples used as demonstrations for cross-disciplinary collaboration and ideation [15,26,92,101], for sharing techniques and materials among experienced practitioners [34,77,98], or for experiments and documentation of design process [28]. Previous work has used swatches and samplers to ideate a wide variety of textiles including touch-sensing textiles [74], colour-changing textiles [16], shape changing textiles [29,68,97], knitted controllers [61], non-wearable textiles [65], and textile physical afordances [64].…”

Section: E-textile Samplers In Hcimentioning

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

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2022

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“…Within e-textile research the focus has been on the second, sampler swatches, with e-textile examples used as demonstrations for cross-disciplinary collaboration and ideation [50,83,255,305], for sharing techniques and materials among experienced practitioners [106,231,293], or for experiments and documentation of design process [87]. Previous work has used swatches and samplers to ideate a wide variety of textiles including touch-sensing textiles [221], colour-changing textiles [52], shape changing textiles [203,88,291], knitted controllers [180], non-wearable textiles [196],…”

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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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Making Matters: Samples and Documentation in Digital Craftsmanship

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Portfolio of Loose Ends

Portfolio of Loose Ends

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

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

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