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Lookup NU author(s): Janis Meissner, Angelika Strohmayer, Emeritus Professor Pete Wright
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© 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).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.
Author(s): Meissner JL, Strohmayer A, Wright P, Fitzpatrick G
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Year of Conference: 2018
Acceptance date: 21/04/2018
Date deposited: 28/06/2018
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173725
DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3173725
Data Access Statement: http://dx.doi.org/10.17634/154300-61
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ISBN: 9781450356206