{"title":"Escaping the Sandbox: Making and Its Future","authors":"Tom Jenkins, I. Bogost","doi":"10.1145/2677199.2680558","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":117478,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"21","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680558","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.