From DIY tutorials to DIY recipes

Dalton, Matthew A.; Desjardins, Audrey; Wakkary, Ron

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581238

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“…Tseng and Resnick [20] examined the challenges project authors encounter when documenting a DIY project and the varied ways in which these authors translated their documentations into "a sharable format" [p.425]. Dalton et al [5] presented an experimentation of transforming two existing DIY tutorials into a cookbook recipe format. They argued that the maturation process of cookbooks is a good reference for the evolution of DIY tutorials, particularly with regard to formatting tutorials.…”

Section: Diy and Hcimentioning

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Tutorial Authorship and Hybrid Designers

Wakkary

Schilling

Dalton

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Tutorials are critical to the success and vitality of DIY practices. In this paper, we elevate the importance of tutorial authorship as one way to maintain and improve the quality of tutorials in DIY. We discuss the role interaction designers can play as hybrid designers, mediating between author and audience to contribute to the improvement of practices of tutorial authorship in DIY. We examine the quality of tutorials through the building and analysis of ten DIY projects and tutorials. We analyze key issues across three categories: 1) competences, components and tools, 2) sequencing, 3) and communication. We offer findings that are both practical guidelines for detailed improvements of tutorials and structural themes for improving tutorial authorship including the themes of accurate information, competences and tools, and tutorial format. In conclusion, we discuss the potential for interaction designers to simultaneously mediate and shape tutorials and tools in a form of hybrid design.

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Section: Diy and Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Tutorial Authorship and Hybrid Designers

Wakkary

Schilling

Dalton

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Make Your Camera provides instructions for constructing the standard daylight My Naturewatch Camera. These are presented in an illustrated 'recipe' format similar to one developed for the Interaction Research Studio's ProbeTools project [5] and explored independently in [9]. A list of parts and recommended tools, most linked to online suppliers, is at the top of the page.…”

Section: Mynaturewatchnetmentioning

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My Naturewatch Camera

Gaver

Boucher

Vanis

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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My Naturewatch Camera is an inexpensive wildlife camera that we designed for people to make themselves as a way of promoting engagement with nature and digital making. We aligned its development to the interests of the BBC's Natural History Unit as part of an orchestrated engagement strategy also involving our project website and outreach to social media. Since June 2018, when the BBC featured the camera on one of their Springwatch 2018 broadcasts, over 1000 My Naturewatch Cameras have been constructed using instructions and software from our project website and commercially available components, without direct contact with our studio. In this paper, we describe the project and outcomes with a focus on its success in promoting engagement with nature, engagement with digital making, and the effectiveness of this strategy for sharing research products outside traditional commercial channels.

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“…Inspired in part by a popular cooking site [7], each page provides a 'recipe' (c.f. [8]) that is headed by a photograph and a short description of the device, followed by a list of components and useful tools and a step-by-step illustrated guide to its construction ( Figure 5). In addition to links to specifications and templates, widgets are provided on the webpage itself to, e.g., construct a text file of questions for uploading to the TaskCams.…”

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TaskCam

Boucher

Brown

Ovalle

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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TaskCams are simple digital cameras intended to serve as a tool for Cultural Probe studies and made available by the Interaction Research Studio via open-source distribution. In conjunction with an associated website, instructions and videos, they represent a novel strategy for disseminating and facilitating a research methodology. At the same time, they provide a myriad of options for customisation and modification, allowing researchers to adopt and adapt them to their needs. In the first part of this paper, the design team describes the rationale and design of the TaskCams and the tactics developed to make them publicly available. In the second part, the story is taken up by designers from the Everyday Design Studio, who assembled their own TaskCams and customised them extensively for a Cultural Probe study they ran for an ongoing project. Rather than discussing the results of their study, we focus on how their experiences reveal some of the issues both in producing and using open-source products such as these. These suggest the potential of TaskCams to support design-led user studies more generally.

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From DIY tutorials to DIY recipes

Cited by 17 publications

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