Productive frictions: moving from digital to material prototyping and low-volume production for design research

R. Wakkary; H. Lin; A. Desjardins; S. Mortimer; L. Low; K. Doyle; P. Robbins

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901880

Productive frictions: moving from digital to material prototyping and low-volume production for design research

R. Wakkary, H. Lin, A. Desjardins, S. Mortimer, L. Low, K. Doyle, P. Robbins

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss the low-volume production of an interaction design research product known as the tilting bowl. The form of the tilting bowl was designed with 3D modeling tools and utilized digital fabrication for rapid prototyping. The final form was produced in a small number of glazed ceramic forms with embedded electronics and actuators. We focus on the lessons we learned from the challenges and design opportunities that arose in moving from digital processes to ceramic processes. We reflected on these lessons and developed thematic notions we refer to as frictions. These include shifting constraints, naïve expertise, manual automation, and dynamic materiality. The contributions of this paper are new design insights into the combination of digital and material processes for studio based prototyping and low-volume production and adds to the emerging relevance of digital fabrication, physical fabrication, and physical materials to interaction design and HCI research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	1258-1269
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4031-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901880
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2016
Event	11th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016) - Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Duration: 4 Jun 2016 → 8 Jun 2016 Conference number: 11 http://www.dis2016.org/

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Conference	11th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016)
Abbreviated title	DIS 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	4/06/16 → 8/06/16
Other	“Fuse"
Internet address	http://www.dis2016.org/

Keywords

Ceramics
Design research
Fabrication
Materials
Prototyping
Rapid prototyping
Research product
Slip-casting

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Wakkary, R., Lin, H., Desjardins, A., Mortimer, S., Low, L., Doyle, K., & Robbins, P. (2016). Productive frictions: moving from digital to material prototyping and low-volume production for design research. In DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse (pp. 1258-1269). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901880

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Wakkary, R, Lin, H, Desjardins, A, Mortimer, S, Low, L, Doyle, K & Robbins, P 2016, Productive frictions: moving from digital to material prototyping and low-volume production for design research. in DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, pp. 1258-1269, 11th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2016), Brisbane, Australia, 4/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901880

Productive frictions: moving from digital to material prototyping and low-volume production for design research. / Wakkary, R.; Lin, H.; Desjardins, A. et al.
DIS 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Fuse. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 1258-1269.

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