M Kazemitabaar, J McPeak, A Jiao, L He… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org

Makerwear: A tangible approach to interactive wearable creation for children.

Broadening participation informal stem education

He, Kazemitabaar

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Wearable construction toolkits have shown promise in broadening participation in computing and empowering users to create personally meaningful computational designs. However, these kits present a high barrier of entry for some users, particularly young children (K-6). In this paper, we introduce MakerWear, a new wearable construction kit for children that uses a tangible, modular approach to wearable creation. We describe our participatory design process, the iterative development of MakerWear, and results from …

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