Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home

Rita Shewbridge; Amy Hurst; Shaun K. Kane

doi:10.1145/2598510.2598544

Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home

Rita Shewbridge, Amy Hurst, Shaun K. Kane

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Abstract

Low-cost and commercially available 3D printers are predicted to be the next disruptive innovation in technology. However, little research has examined how non-designers might interact with fabrication tools in their homes. To explore the potential uses of 3D printers and other fabrication devices in the home, we conducted a study in which 10 households (with 28 individuals) kept a faux 3D printer in their homes for four weeks. Participants kept a log of items that they would want to print, and completed a series of design probes. We found that participants' use of the fabrication tools involved three activities: replicating existing objects, modifying and customizing existing objects, and creating new custom objects. Our study also provides insights on the types of objects that individuals wish to create, and how the faux 3D printer was situated in our participants' homes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	815-824
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450329026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598544
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: Jun 21 2014 → Jun 25 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Conference

Conference	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	6/21/14 → 6/25/14

Keywords

3D printing
Creativity
Cultural probes
DIY
Design probes
Everyday making
Personal scale manufacturing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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Shewbridge, R., Hurst, A., & Kane, S. K. (2014). Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home. In DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 815-824). (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598544

Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home. / Shewbridge, Rita; Hurst, Amy; Kane, Shaun K.
DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 815-824 (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Shewbridge, R, Hurst, A & Kane, SK 2014, Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home. in DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 815-824, 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 6/21/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598544

Shewbridge R, Hurst A, Kane SK. Everyday making: Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home. In DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 815-824. (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS). doi: 10.1145/2598510.2598544

Shewbridge, Rita ; Hurst, Amy ; Kane, Shaun K. / Everyday making : Identifying future uses for 3D printing in the home. DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 815-824 (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS).

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