Mediated crafts: digital practices around creative handwork

  • Authors:
  • Daniela K. Rosner

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this submission, I discuss my design research and fieldwork investigating mediated crafts' - digital practices around creative handwork. Specifically, I study how creating and sharing digital information around knitting or crochet activity affects the social and material relationships enacted through craft. Here I review my qualitative research on the role of digital resources in creative handwork and the iterative design of Spyn, mobile phone software that associates digital records of the creative process' - captured through audio/visual media, text, and geographic data' - with physical locations on handmade fabric.