From Trash to Treasure: Experiences from Building Tangible Artifacts out of Discarded Components

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-547043
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.54704

Schmid, Andreas

; Kalus, Alexander

; Wimmer, Raphael

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Abstract

Prototyping interactive hardware artifacts is an iterative process that can produce significant amounts of waste. This problem becomes particularly apparent in teaching, when multiple students build the same artifact as an exercise and components can break when used improperly. In the context of a university course on tangible interaction, we explored how material found in the trash could be ...