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Exploring the Collaboration Possibilities of Distributed Making for Storytelling Using 3D Printing Pens

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Amina H. El-Ashry,

Savani Shrotri,

Foad HamidiAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 44 - 48

https://doi.org/10.1145/3462204.3481755

Published: 23 October 2021 Publication History

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As digital making tools, such as 3D printers and laser cutters, become more affordable and easier to use by non-experts, new opportunities arise for geographically distributed designers to use them collaboratively and at a distance. In this exploratory study, we investigated the possibilities of a 3D printing pen for collaboratively creating multimodal stories around the themes of ecology and climate change for elementary school-aged children. Our interdisciplinary team of four students met regularly over a video link and used shared documents and 3D pens to create a multimodal adventure book, with audio and tactile elements, that we then used as a design probe to elicit feedback from experienced community science educators working with children about the possibilities of using hands-on distributed collaborative techniques in the future. We found that using this approach is promising for facilitating creative verbal and visual collaboration at a distance, and using tactile and audio representations with narrative elements provides new ways to reflect on complex topics, such as climate change.

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CSCW '21 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2021

370 pages

ISBN:9781450384797

DOI:10.1145/3462204

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Jeremy Birnholtz
Northwestern University, USA
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University College Cork, Ireland
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Sharon Ding
Fudan University, China
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Cornell University, USA
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Snap, Inc., USA
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University of Washington, USA
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Cornell Tech, USA

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3637368
Higgins EOliver ZHamidi F(2023)Towards a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace: Co-designing Custom Assistive Technology within a University EcosystemProceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3597638.3608393(1-13)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3597638.3608393
Rogerson MSparrow LFreeman S(2022)The SMeFT Decks: A Card-Based Ideation Tool for Designing Hybrid Digital Boardgames for Distanced PlayProceedings of the 34th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3572921.3572933(298-309)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3572921.3572933

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