“Anyone Can Print”: Supporting Collaborations with 3D Printing Services to Empower Broader Participation in Personal Fabrication
While the recent emergence of 3D printing services has empowered many to print by insulating users from the costs and detailed …
iCanTrace - Avatar Personalization through Selfie Sketches
This paper introduces a novel system that allows users to generate customized cartoon avatars through a sketching interface. The rise …
Towards the Meaningful 3D-Printed Object- Understanding the Materiality of 3D Prints
Digital fabrication (e.g. 3D printing) provides opportunities for people to create or adapt objects to their needs and prefer- ences. …
Toward a making community of practice: The social aspects of elementary classroom-based making
As Making moves from informal settings, such as museums and libraries to formal learning contexts, such as the classroom, questions …
ThingiPano: A Large-Scale Dataset of 3D Printing Metadata, Images, and Panoramic Renderings for Exploring Design Reuse
The emergence of consumer-grade 3D printing has democratized innovation through online design-sharing platforms like Thingiverse. We …
Telepresence Robotics for Hands-on Distance Instruction
Access to technology education is a challenge for broadening participation in STEM for remote rural communities that make up 20% of US …
Proximal and Distal Mentors: Sustaining Making-Expertise in Rural Schools
With the increasing interest of integrating Making into formal set- tings, like public school classrooms, questions have emerged on how …
Physical Making Online - A Study of Children's Maker Websites
The Maker phenomenon revolves around the technology-enabled hands-on production of artifacts, and has been consistently proposed as a …
Making Sense of Darknet Markets- Automatic Inference of Semantic Classifications from Unconventional Multimedia Datasets
Darknet Markets are a hotbed of illicit trade and are difficult for law enforcement to monitor and analyze. Topic Modeling has been a …
From Making to Micro-Manufacture - Catalyzing STEM Participation in Rural High Schools
This paper proposes Micro-Manufacture (M2), a model of Making that extends its practice to include aspects of engineering concerns of …
Exploring the 3D printing process for young children in curriculum-aligned making in the classroom
With increasing focus on integrating 3D printing in educational settings, more emphasis needs to be placed onhow to introduce young …
Developing Communities of Practice through Peer Mentorship in Making through Micro-manufacturing Model
The purpose of this paper is to focus on how the “Making as Micro-Manufacture (M2)” model, can elucidate STEM learning and …
Becoming Makers - Examining Making Literacy in the Elementary School Science Classroom
This paper extends the concept of digital literacy and applies it to Making. Through case descriptions, we contribute an understanding …
