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The LilyPad Arduino: using computational textiles to investigate engagement, aesthetics, and diversity in computer science education
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The advent of novel materials (such as conductive fibers) combined with accessible embedded computing platforms have made it possible to re-imagine the landscapes of fabric and electronic crafts--extending these landscapes with the creative range of electronic/computational textiles or e-textiles. This paper describes the LilyPad Arduino, a fabric-based construction kit that enables novices to design and build their own soft wearables and other textile artifacts. The kit consists of a microcontroller and an assortment of sensors and actuators in stitch-able packages; these elements can be sewn to cloth substrates and each other with conductive thread to build e-textiles. This paper will introduce the latest version of the kit; reflect on its affordances; present the results of our most recent user studies; and discuss possible directions for future work in the area of personalized e-textile design and its relation to technology education.
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- Buechley, L., Eisenberg, M., Catchen, J., & Crockett, A.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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- ACM
- Published
- 2008-04-06
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- 423-432
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- W2158519170
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- 14.69
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- en
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