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Escaping the sandbox: Making and its future

  • Tom Jenkins
  • , Ian Bogost

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Abstract

"Making" has been gaining traction in HCI and related fields both as a community of practice and as a method for creating objects and systems. While making is an important cultural practice, this paper claims that there is a disconnect between the rhetoric of making and "real world" notions of domain relevance and embedded hardware development. In considering how making operates in practice, we offer the metaphor of a sandbox to describe this contradiction. We exemplify the metaphor with a small-scale prototyping platform of our own, and offer visions on how making might progress in the future.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTEI 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages29-32
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450333054
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 15 2015
Event9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2015 - Stanford, United States
Duration: Jan 15 2015Jan 19 2015

Publication series

NameTEI 2015 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStanford
Period01/15/1501/19/15

Keywords

  • Design
  • Embedded hardware
  • Engineering
  • Making
  • Prototyping platforms

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