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Jones, Lee and Awad, Ahmed and Koelle, Marion and Nabil, Sara

Buchtitel

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Zusammenfassung

The ‘material turn’ in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly drawing attention to the computational affordances of materials and how we can craft with them. In this paper, we explore opportunities for combining the maker cultures of hand spinning with e-textile crafting. In our first study, we interviewed 32 hand spinners on their practices to better understand their motivations for spinning their own yarns and the techniques they use to do so. In our second study, we conducted workshops with 6 spinners at a local spinning guild, where participants worked with the conductive fibers and spun e-textile yarns. After the workshops, we conducted follow-up interviews with each participant to understand the opportunities and tensions of hand spinning e-textile yarns. Our findings show how spinners can blend local materials with conductive ones to develop their own custom interactive textiles, and the mismatch between how these fibers are sold and what information spinners require to inform their design decisions. Through these results, we hope to empower makers and inspire the design community to develop tools to support these DIY practices.

Erscheinungsdatum

2024

Publikationstyp

inproceedings

Verlag

Association for Computing Machinery

Reihe

DIS '24

Seiten

1–19

Projekte

Digitopias
DIGItal TechnOlogies for Participation and InterAction in Society - Digitale Technologien für Teilhabe und Interaktion an und mit Gesellschaft

DOI

10.1145/3643834.3660717