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Wearable studio practice: design considerations for digital crafting in harsh environments

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UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Pages 1285 - 1293

https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2807926

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

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Wearable and Ubiquitous computing necessarily expose digital electronics to new environments. Traditional methods of creating new technology, within climate controlled laboratories, can cultivate hidden assumptions within the design of the devices, and prolong design iteration time. Designers can instead find new ways to free the development of ubiquitous and wearable technology from the laboratory and into the site of use.

This paper will describe the design and use of portable workshop equipment that has been created to enable engineers to create tools in harsh and restrictive environments. With these devices an entire workspace for digital prototyping can be quickly setup in the wild. Examples are taken from "Hiking Hack" workshops held in Panama, Madagascar, and the U.S. The mobility of our setup will enable us to bring our studio directly to the "Wear and Tear" to illustrate the key components and elicit feedback about new designs for portable studio practice.

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Wearable studio practice: design considerations for digital crafting in harsh environments
1. Human-centered computing

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September 2015

1626 pages

ISBN:9781450335751

DOI:10.1145/2800835

General Chairs:
Kenji Mase
Nagoya University, JP
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Marc Langheinrich
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), CH
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Daniel Gatica-Perez
IDIAP-EPFL, CH
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Program Chairs:
Hans Gellersen
Lancaster University, UK
,
Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell University
,
Koji Yatani
Univerisity of Tokyo, JP

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UbiComp '15: The 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

September 7 - 11, 2015

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