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Integrating biomaterials and interactive technologies: practice-based perspectives on the growth of biodesign within human-computer interaction Open

Fiona Bell, Mirela Alistar, Leah Buechley · 2025

Biodesign has grown significantly in the last decade as an approach focused on designing with biological materials, processes and systems. The inherent transdisciplinarity of biodesign enables it to cut across multiple fields. In this work…

Interactive Murals: New Opportunities for Collaborative STEAM Learning Open

Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Mia S. Shaw, Fiona Bell, Leah Buechley · 2024

This paper introduces interactive murals—artworks that combine longstanding traditions in community mural painting with ubiquitous computing—as new sites for collaborative STEAM learning. Using research-through-design and participatory des…

Demonstrating New Materials, Software, and Hardware from the Hand and Machine Lab Open

Fiona Bell, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Jaime Gould, Erin Kathleen McClure, Deanna Gelosi , et al. · 2024

There has been a surge of recent interest in new materials and tools for digital fabrication. In this work, we introduce a range of materials that we have developed for use in Direct Write (DW) 3D printers. These materials include play-dou…

Shape-Changing Clay-Dough: Taking a Material-Oriented Approach to 3D Printing Ceramic Forms Open

Fiona Bell, Erin Kathleen McClure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, Leah Buechley · 2024

This paper presents clay-dough, a 3D printable ceramic material that is made from a mixture of stoneware clay and a biomaterial dough. While all clays shrink when they are fired at high temperatures, clay-dough enables more dramatic shrink…

CeraMetal: A New Approach to Low-Cost Metal 3D Printing with Bronze Clay Open

Leah Buechley, Jaime Gould, Fiona Bell · 2024

This paper introduces CeraMetal, a low-cost and robust approach to desktop metal 3D printing based on a custom "metal clay". We present three recipes for 3D printable bronze clay along with a workflow that includes print parameters and a s…

WeaveSlicer: Expanding the Range of Printable Geometries in Clay Open

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Deanna Gelosi, Fiona Bell, Leah Buechley · 2024

Clay 3D printing is a relatively new technology and only a narrow range of geometries is 3D printable if one is employing commercially available slicing software. We experienced these limitations in an artist residency program where artist…

Sustainable Unmaking: Designing for Biodegradation, Decay, and Disassembly Open

Katherine Song, Fiona Bell, Himani Deshpande, Ilan Mandel, Tiffany Wun , et al. · 2024

Unmaking is a counterpart to making and creating new things that has emerged as a concept of interest in diverse parts of the HCI community. Unmaking has been posed as an ally to sustainability, encouraging designers to foreground issues r…

Entangled Co-Design with a Trickster: Speculative Framing and Reframing Open

Vanessa Svihla, Megan Jacobs, Tim Castillo, Mary Tsiongas, Leah Buechley , et al. · 2024

Speculative design, as a diverse set of methods that aim to offer critique, can be challenging to engage productively. In this design case, we share how a prior, stalled design project—an ambitious vision of interdisciplinary design educat…

Cognizant Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites Incorporating Seamlessly Integrated Sensing and Computing Circuitry Open

Mohammed Jaradat, Jorge Loredo Duran, Daniel Heras Murcia, Leah Buechley, Yu‐Lin Shen , et al. · 2023

Structural fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials consisting of a polymer matrix reinforced with layers of high-strength fibers are used in numerous applications, including but not limited to spacecraft, vehicles, buildings, an…

LilyTiny in the Wild: Studying the Adoption of a Low-Cost Sewable Microcontroller for Computing Education Open

Emily Lovell, Leah Buechley, James Davis · 2023

We designed the LilyTiny sewable microcontroller over ten years ago in an effort to make electronic textiles more accessible to students, educators, and novices; it was meant to be affordable, easy to get started with, and well-supported b…

Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS Open

Laura Devendorf, Leah Buechley, Noura Howell, Jennifer Jacobs, Hsin-Liu Kao , et al. · 2023

While cross-disciplinary collaboration continues to be a cornerstone of inventive work in interactive design, the infrastructures of academia, as well as barriers to participation imposed by our professional organizations, make collaborati…

A Computational Fabrication Course: Exploring Philosophical Reflection, Real-World Use, Personal Expression, and Social Connection Open

Leah Buechley, Alyshia Bustos, Eleonora Edreva, Tyler M. Fenske, Reuben Fresquez , et al. · 2022

Computational Fabrication—the creation of physical objects via programming and digital fabrication—is emerging as an important research area in human computer interaction and other computing domains. This paper describes a new semester-lon…

Chibitronics in the Wild Open

Jie Qi, Leah Buechley, Andrew Huang, Patricia Ng, Sean Cross , et al. · 2018

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 twoand-a-half-year perio…

Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices Open

David A. Mellis, Leah Buechley, Mitchel Resnick, Björn Hartmann · 2016

This paper explores personal fabrication as a means of engaging new audiences in the creation of electronic devices, which play an ever-increasing role in our lives but which most people have little involvement in creating. We describe a s…

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