Escaping the Sandbox: Making and Its Future

Tom  Jenkins; Ian Bogost

doi:10.1145/2677199.2680558

Escaping the Sandbox: Making and Its Future

Tom Jenkins
, Ian Bogost

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

“Making” has been gaining traction in HCI and related fields both as a community of practice and as a method for creating objects and systems. While making is an important cultural practice, this paper claims that there is a disconnect between the rhetoric of making and “real world” notions of domain relevance and embedded hardware development. In considering how making operates in practice, we offer the
metaphor of a sandbox to describe this contradiction. We exemplify the metaphor with a small-scale prototyping platform of our own, and offer visions on how making
might progress in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	15 Jan 2015
Pages	29-32
ISBN (Print)	9781450333054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680558
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction - Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States Duration: 16 Jan 2015 → 19 Jan 2015 Conference number: 9 http://www.tei-conf.org/15/

Conference

Conference	Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Number	9
Location	Stanford University
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palo Alto
Period	16/01/2015 → 19/01/2015
Internet address	http://www.tei-conf.org/15/

Keywords

Making
Design
Engineering
Embedded hardware
Prototyping platforms

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