Everyday Creativity in Novice E-Textile Designs

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Title

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.

Author/creator

Kafai, Yasmin B.

Fields, Deborah A.

Searle, Kristin A.

Date

2011

In publication

Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition

Series

C&C '11

Pages

353–354

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Keywords

design

creativity

e-textiles

remixing

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISBN

978-1-4503-0820-5

DOI

10.1145/2069618.2069692

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (ACM Digital Library)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)

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

Cited in

Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives

Place

New York, NY, USA

Item sets

OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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