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Glaze Epochs: Understanding Lifelong Material Relationships within Ceramics Studios
(ACM, 2022-02-22)
The “material turn” in HCI has placed a renewed focus on informing
design from the relationships found in material-based interactions.
While several ethnographic works provide insight into how practitioners converse with ...
“I’m Better Off on my Own”: Understanding How a Tutorial’s Medium Affects Physical Skill Development
(ACM, 2021-07-02)
The shift towards distance learning brought forth by the pandemic
has highlighted the shortcomings of teaching physical skills at a
distance. With the emergence of new augmented and connected
mediums, new opportunities ...
Embr: A Creative Framework for Hand Embroidered Liquid Crystal Textile Displays
(ACM, 2022-05-05)
Conductive thread is a common material in e-textile toolkits that allows practitioners to create connections between electronic components sewn on fabric. When powered, conductive threads are used
as resistive heaters to ...
Thermoplastic Kilnforms: Extending Glass Kilnforming Techniques to Thermoplastic Materials using Ontology-Driven Design
(ACM, 2023-07-10)
The ecology of thermoplastic materials is rapidly evolving, enabling
an exciting landscape of functional, aesthetic, and interactive forms.
Despite their utility in fused flament fabrication (FFF), an even
larger and ...
BraidFlow: A Flow-annotated Dataset of Kumihimo Braidmaking Activity
(ACM, 2023-07-14)
Entering a cognitive state of fow is a natural response of the mind
that allows people to fully concentrate and cope with tedious, and
often repetitive tasks. Understanding how to trigger or sustain
fow remains limited ...
Tacit Descriptions: Uncovering Ambiguity in Crowdsourced Descriptions of Motions and Materials
(ACM, 2023-07-10)
Although a picture, GIF, or tutorial video is "worth a thousand words", every viewer has a unique perspective of which words they ‘see.’ Packed with rich meaning, these words, or descriptions, are often used to describe ...