Digital fabrication machines are controlled through code. Software that generates this code,
such as slicers, often rely on abstractions that restrict practitioners from exploring the full …

New digital fabrication workflows require both software development and digital/physical
material exploration. To support digital fabrication workflow development, we contribute …

This pictorial review illustrates an array of visual strategies employed in 271 pictorials
published in DIS, C&C, and TEI conferences between 2014 and 2023. Based on a thematic …

3D printing generally makes use of CAD software and slicers to mediate designerly
intentions and fabrication instructions to the machine. This can obstruct the making process …

This project explores the nuance of human-AI collaboration using domestic knitting
machines alongside a simple, task-based, AI algorithm addressed through the research …

Much reporting on research-through-design (RtD) is vague about markers of time and
temporal qualities. This lack of temporal attunement risks obscuring important contextual …

The 'material turn'in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is increasingly drawing attention to
the computational affordances of materials and how we can craft with them. In this paper, we …

As DIS researchers increasingly describe design as an emergent and material engaged
practice, many are embracing different approaches to design documentation that capture the …

Research through Design is centered on making things, services and systems as a way to
construct knowledge. At the same time, the act of making happens behind-the-scenes, often …

Sample making and documentation are well established practices in digital craftsmanship.
However, we rarely discuss how we return to these collections to look for starting points and …