Interacting with personal fabrication devices
| dc.contributor.author | Mueller, Stefanie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-21T10:08:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-21T10:08:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Personal fabrication tools, such as 3D printers, are on the way of enabling a future in which non-technical users will be able to create custom objects. While the hardware is now affordable and the number of people who own a 3D printer is increasing, only few create new 3D models. Most users download models from a 3D model database and after downloading fabricate them on their 3D printers. At most, users adjust a few parameters of the model, such as changing its color or browsing between predetermined shape options. I argue that personal fabrication has the potential for more: Instead of only consuming existing content, I envision a future in which non-technical users will create objects only trained experts can create today. While there are many open challenges for human-computer interaction, such as abstracting away the necessary domain and machine knowledge, I focus on improving the interaction model underlying current personal fabrication devices. In this article, I illustrate why today’s interaction model for personal fabrication tools is not suitable for non-technical users. For this, I draw an analogy to the development of the user interface in personal computing and show how solutions developed by human-computer interaction researchers over the last decades can be applied to this new domain. I analyze the challenges when creating interactive systems for personal fabrication and describe six research prototypes I built to overcome these challenges. I discuss the limitations of these systems and conclude with an overview of recent advancements in personal fabrication that will allow us to go beyond what is possible today. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/itit-2017-0041 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 2196-7032 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/36600 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | De Gruyter | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | it - Information Technology: Vol. 60, No. 2 | |
| dc.subject | Personal Fabrication | |
| dc.subject | human-computer interaction | |
| dc.subject | direct manipulation | |
| dc.title | Interacting with personal fabrication devices | en |
| dc.type | Text/Journal Article | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 117 | |
| gi.citation.publisherPlace | Berlin | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 113 |