Needle as Input

Schoemann, Sarah; Nitsche, Michael

doi:10.1145/3024969.3024999

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“…Borrowing from the concept of roaming objects [9] as interactive systems for resource sharing in groups such cooperatives, we argue for the importance of designing roaming value-creation artifacts, which we define as hybrid objects that can better support the capture, co-creation, selective sharing, and protection of the outcomes of the collaborative design practices taking place in such infrastructures. Roaming value-creation artifacts are crucial for shaping such craftbased infrastructure as sites for collective innovation, with the potential to further challenge the binary division [19,48] between the practices of physical and digital design. Finally, we acknowledge the complexity of designing for infrastructures and encourage HCI researchers to further engage with this underexplored and exciting space.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In such work, practice is defined through bodily activities and physical objects [39], or people's competencies of interacting with specific materials through which they develop meaning [8]. While much work has focused on the DIY practices of making and repairing of both nonelectronic [58] and electronic devices [42,47], other scholars have looked at traditional handicrafts such as weaving [43] or knitting [41] with the intention of unpacking their material qualities and their value for the development of hybrid computational objects [48]. Such practice and materiality-based approaches of situated crafts have started to challenge the distinction between the individual and the social, the physical and the digital context [48].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…New hybrid computational objects have been designed to explore the augmentation of traditional craft practices with computational capabilities. For example, Stitch Sampler is a sew-able musical instrument and craft platform that generates digital tones during hand-sewing when the needle enters the fabric [48], while Spyn allows integrating digital messages within the specific places within the knitted fabric, in order to support knitters' communication and reflection on their practices [42]. Another example is Electronic Quilt, materializing the invisible work of female weavers for dense storage of information on so-called core memory, i.e., the array of magnetic ferrite, a practice consisting of passing a wire through or around magnetized cores [43].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing for the Infrastructure of the Supply Chain of Malay Handwoven Songket in Terengganu

Zhang

Sas

Lambert

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

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The growing HCI interest in developing contexts and cultural craft practices is ripe to focus on their underexplored homegrown sociotechnical infrastructures. This paper explores the creative infrastructural actions embedded within the practices of songket's supply chain in Terengganu, Malaysia. We report on contextual interviews with 92 participants including preparation workers, weavers, designers, merchants, and customers. Findings indicate that increased creative infrastructural actions are reflected in these actors' resourcefulness for mobilizing information, materials, and equipment, and for making creative artifacts through new technologies weaved within traditional practices. We propose two novel approaches to design in this craft-based infrastructure. First, we explore designing for the social layer of infrastructure and its mutually advantageous exploitative relationships rooted in culture and traditions. Second, we suggest designing for roaming value-creation artifacts, which blend physical and digital materializations of songket textile design. Developed through a collaborative and asynchronous process, we argue that these artifacts represent less-explored vehicles for value co-creation, and that sociotechnical infrastructures as emerging sites of innovation could benefit from HCI research.

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Designing for the Infrastructure of the Supply Chain of Malay Handwoven Songket in Terengganu

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Lambert

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

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“…A portion of the appliquéd circuitry from Sicchio et al (2016) can be seen in Figure 2 and an appliquéd speaker by EJTech can be seen in Figure 2. The combination of embroidery and appliqué techniques along with how they relate to each other is explored in the iterative development of the Stitched Sampler (Schoemann and Nitsche, 2017).…”

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Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

Stewart

2019

Front. ICT

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Electronic textiles (e-textiles) have played a significant role in computational audio ranging from wearable interfaces for creative expression to more utilitarian purposes such as acoustic monitoring for military applications. This article looks at e-textiles within computational audio from three perspectives: the historical developments of the field; the core enabling technologies; and the primary application areas. It closes with a discussion of what role e-textiles may play in future computational audio systems.

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“…E-textiles swatchbooks have sample swatches and are typically used for knowledge sharing [106,231]. Within e-textile research the focus has been on e-textile examples used as demonstrations for cross-disciplinary collaboration and ideation [50,83,255,305] or for sharing techniques and materials among experienced practitioners [106,231].…”

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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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Needle as Input

Cited by 22 publications

References 34 publications

Designing for the Infrastructure of the Supply Chain of Malay Handwoven Songket in Terengganu

Designing for the Infrastructure of the Supply Chain of Malay Handwoven Songket in Terengganu

Cords and Chords: Exploring the Role of E-Textiles in Computational Audio

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

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