Paper Mechatronics investigates how young people learn engineering with paper mechatronics, creating听working devices - machines, robots, toys, automata, kinetic artwork - using paper as the building material, and how novices develop adaptive expertise through听this creative and powerful medium. The听project pioneers paper mechatronics through novel "smart" crafting tools for paper, innovative design software听and instructional resources. Paper mechatronics听introduces a new genre of engineering education by extending听traditional children's papercrafts with novel, accessible, computationally-enhanced tools and materials to create original and compelling artifacts. The project furthers a style of engineering education that is interdisciplinary (integrating elements of programming, electronics, and mechanical design) and realistic, yet also playful and respectful of children's creativity.
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Publications
- Hyunjoo Oh, Sherry Hsi,听Michael Eisenberg, and听Mark D. Gross. 2018.听. In听Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children听(IDC '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 389-395. DOI:听听(Trondheim, Norway 鈥撎齁une, 2018).
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