Everyday Creativity in Novice E-Textile Designs
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Everyday Creativity in Novice E-Textile Designs
Abstract/Description
We examine e-textile designs, a new domain combining crafts, circuitry, and programming with the LilyPad Arduino, to better understand how novice designers develop creative technical solutions. Our analyses draw from observation and interviews conducted with middle and high school students enrolled in e-textiles workshops. In the workshops, students created their own designs by re-interpreting e-textile creations from an online community or by re-purposing the conductive functionality of everyday objects. These remixes, popular in today's youth digital media culture, can also be seen as "interpretative flexibility" and promising indicators of the everyday creativity of novice designers.
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Pages
353–354
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
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Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISBN
978-1-4503-0820-5
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Citation
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Searle, K. A. (2011). Everyday Creativity in Novice E-Textile Designs. Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 353–354. https://doi.org/10.1145/2069618.2069692
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