Chibitronics in the Wild
| Autor: | Joseph A. Paradiso, Leah Buechley, Patricia Ng, Sean Cross, Andrew \\'bunnie\\' Huang, Jie Qi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Focus (computing)
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Craft World Wide Web Open source Documentation 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Electronics Business Public engagement Inclusion (education) 050107 human factors Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | CHI |
| Popis: | We share a study on the public adoption the Chibitronics circuit sticker toolkit, an open source, commercially available hardware toolkit for learning and creating electronics on paper. We examine sales data over a two-and-a-half-year period from November 2013, when the kit was launched commercially, to June 2016. We also look at publicly available project documentation from users during this period. We find that the Chibitronics user community confounds norms for traditional technology-making communities, especially in gender demographics. We explore the artifacts and types of documentation produced by users to learn about the various backgrounds, values, and goals of subcommunities, which includes educators, Makers, and crafters. In particular, we focus on artifacts from the craft community as a surprising and distinctive subset of technology creators. The diversity in public engagement shows how paper electronics tools like Chibitronics can be an effective approach for engaging new and broader audiences to participate in technology creation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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