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Snowflakes: A Design Speculation for a Modular Prototyping Tool for Rapidly Designing Smart Wearables

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Selin İnsel,

Oğuz Turan Buruk,

Mehmet Cengiz Onbaşli,

Oğuzhan ÖzcanAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper No.: LBW582, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188676

Published: 20 April 2018 Publication History

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Aesthetics qualities are critical aspects for smart jewelry as they are worn and considered as expressive artefacts. However, current tools for prototyping smart jewelry do not put aesthetic considerations as a primary concern. Therefore, we created Snowflakes, a design speculation for a modular, "snap-on-off", prototyping tool for designing smart jewelry. The design requirements of Snowflakes were determined after studying non-smart jewelry and extracting 7 parameters for them (limb, material, grip, fastener type, decoration, decoration placement and form). Drawing upon these parameters, Snowflakes were proposed as a tool that would allow prototyping smart jewelry by synthesizing conventional jewelry's form language with smart jewelry which is adorned with technology. This paper explores using this product as a design tool to experiment on designs blending aesthetics and function.

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Snowflakes: A Design Speculation for a Modular Prototyping Tool for Rapidly Designing Smart Wearables
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI EA '18: Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2018

3155 pages

ISBN:9781450356213

DOI:10.1145/3170427

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