Handcrafting textile interfaces from a kit-of-no-parts

• DOI: 10.1145/1935701.1935715
• Publication Date: 2011-02-01T15:50:27Z
• Authors: Hannah Perner-Wilson; Leah Buechley; Mika Satomi
• Keywords: 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences

This paper explores the idea of handcrafted electronics. We introduce a kit-of-no-parts approach to building electronics from a diverse palette of craft materials, which we argue is more personal, understandable and accessible than the construction of technology from a kit of pre-determined components. We illustrate our approach by describing the design, construction, and dissemination of a collection of textile sensors, and detailing a website and a series of workshops through which we share our approach.