Sustainabot – Exploring the Use of Everyday Foodstuffs as Output and Input for and with Emergent Users
- Submitting institution
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Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 48078
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/3290605.3300456
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '19
- First page
- 1
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Citation count
- 1
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Emergent users of technology in developing countries often have limited resources – as a result, frugality, reuse and recycling are paramount. We created a mini robotic printer that uses everyday materials (e.g., grains, foodstuffs) to draw shapes and patterns on any flat surface, controlled by a mobile phone. Printouts can be manipulated and materials recycled, making the design particularly suitable for people in resource-constrained contexts. The open-source design was proposed and developed in an extensive collaboration with emergent users, and demonstrated the potential to use new surfaces for interaction, with low power and resource needs.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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