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Human Centered Design & Engineering Research Group
CoDesign of Introductory Sewing Project in CoMotion MakerSpace lab of Fluke Hall
I am a member of ongoing research that examines how students can learn design informally through interest-driven physical fabrication projects. I work with a diverse team of undergraduate and graduate students in various area of studies (i.e. Business, HCDE, Informatics, Biology).
The ultimate goal is the design of learning environments and tools that help people see the space possible designs and skills they can achieve and map their progress through these spaces. We are starting with a simple task of sewing then compiling our data to recreate instructions.
To design such tools, we identified what resources beginners need to carry out a particular project and begin to see the design pace. This DRG centers around an introductory sewing project, the construction of a basic bag, to be deployed in the CoMotion MakerSpace. As a participant, I will engage in co-design of methodology for capturing and analyzing information and co-design of the beginning project itself. Half the class has been divided, one half has been assigned to be 'makers" and the other half are the observers. The makers have constructed a basic bag which a main phase of the start of the project.
This research group is ongoing until the end of Spring quarter, we spend approximately 3+ hours in class and do individual work outside of class. By the end of the quarter we will produced a number of artifacts relating to our project:
- A sewn bag
- Journey-map of experience throughout project
- Collection of resources (knowledge, skills, tools, materials, etc.) needed to complete the project
- Prototypes of new instruction sets or tools that embed these resources.
Artifacts (ongoing)
- Journey Map
- Resources
