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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

J. Meissner, A. Strohmayer, P. Wright, G. Fitzpatrick:
"A Schnittmuster for Crafting Context-Sensitive Toolkits";
Talk: CHI'18, Montreal; 2018-04-21 - 2018-04-26; in: "Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)", ACM Press, (2018), ISBN: 978-1-4503-5620-6; 1 - 13.



English abstract:
DIY-making can be an expensive pastime if makers are relying on ready-made toolkits, specialised materials and off-shelf components. Many prefabricated commercial kits seek to lower the learning barrier of making and to help beginners to successfully take their first steps in engineering. However, as soon as the novices become a little more advanced, these toolkits often do not fit the specific requirements of personal maker projects anymore. We introduce the idea of a Schnittmuster (or a meta-toolkit) as a novel approach to toolkit design that seeks to address these creativity-limiting factors as well as practical entrance hurdles. To demonstrate the adaptive power of the Schnittmuster concept, we discuss an exemplar in the context of capacitive touch sensing (FlexE-Touch). Implemented under the constraints of materials, user skill sets and making environments, we illustrate how the Schnittmuster facilitated four cheap and flexible toolkit instantiations for crafting custom touch sensor electrodes.

Keywords:
Making; DIY; toolkits; empowerment; social justice


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173725

Electronic version of the publication:
https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_275884.pdf


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