Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA
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| author | Moyer, Ilan E Bourgault, Samuelle Frost, Devon Jacobs, Jennifer |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1551772024-09-18T05:06:04Z Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel Moyer, Ilan E Bourgault, Samuelle Frost, Devon Jacobs, Jennifer CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems May 11–16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA Skilled potters use manual tools with direct material engagement. In contrast, the design of clay 3D printers and workflows reinforces industrial CNC manufacturing conventions. To understand how digital fabrication can serve skilled craft practitioners, we ask: how might clay 3D printing function if it had evolved from traditional pottery tools? To examine this question, we created the Digital Pottery Wheel (DPW), a throwing wheel with 3D printing capabilities. The DPW consists of a polar mechanical architecture that looks and functions like a pottery wheel while supporting 3D printing and a real-time modular control system that blends automated and manual control. We worked with ceramicists to develop interactions that include printing onto thrown forms, throwing to manipulate printed forms, and integrating manual control, recording, and playback to re-execute manually produced forms. We demonstrate how using a physical metaphor to guide digital fabrication machine design results in new products, workflows, and perceptions. 2024-06-04T16:27:11Z 2024-06-04T16:27:11Z 2024-05-11 2024-06-01T07:50:22Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 979-8-4007-0330-0 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/155177 Moyer, Ilan E, Bourgault, Samuelle, Frost, Devon and Jacobs, Jennifer. 2024. "Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel." PUBLISHER_POLICY en 10.1145/3613904.3642361 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. The author(s) application/pdf ACM Association for Computing Machinery |
| spellingShingle | Moyer, Ilan E Bourgault, Samuelle Frost, Devon Jacobs, Jennifer Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title | Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title_full | Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title_fullStr | Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title_full_unstemmed | Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title_short | Throwing Out Conventions: Reimagining Craft-Centered CNC Tool Design through the Digital Pottery Wheel |
| title_sort | throwing out conventions reimagining craft centered cnc tool design through the digital pottery wheel |
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