As we may print
Michael Eisenberg, Michael Eisenberg, S. Hendrix, Glenn Blauvelt, Diana Butter, José Antonio Millán-García, Rory A. Lewis, T. Nielsen · 2003
In recent years, educational technologists and designers have begun to explore a variety of ways in which physical and computational media can be integrated---for instance, through the design of "intelligent toys" for children. This paper describes our ongoing efforts at exploring a different sort of physical-computational integration, focusing on children's design activities, output devices, and the notion of "printing out" more generally. We describe several representative systems under development in our group; each of these systems highlights particular possibilities for exploring and experimenting with output devices for children's crafts. We also present a set of design heuristis---useful techniques for those educational designers interested in expanding the range and expressiveness of craft activities for children.