Drill Sergeant: Supporting Physical Construction Projects through an Ecosystem of Augmented Tools
Bjoern Hartmann, Daniel Lim, Michelle Nguyen, Eldon Schoop, Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer

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Bjoern Hartmann, Daniel Lim, Michelle Nguyen, Eldon Schoop, Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer. "Drill Sergeant: Supporting Physical Construction Projects through an Ecosystem of Augmented Tools". CHI conference, August, 2015.

Abstract
Mapping techniques from software tutorials onto physical craft processes can assist novices in building multi-material assemblies. By interactively tracking user progress over differ- ent operations, providing guidance and feedback on progress and mistakes, and dynamically adapting tutorials to user con- text and preferences, an ecosystem of smart tools can guide users through complete project tutorials as well as smaller “construction macros” for their own custom projects. In this paper, we demonstrate how such techniques can be enabled by augmenting common workshop tools (drill/driver, saw, router) with measurement, state sensing and interactive feedback; and sequencing instructions across multiple tools. We validate the benefits of a smart tool ecosystem through reflections on a se- ries of author-created design examples and informal feedback from four fab lab users.

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    Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer. <a
    href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/644.html"
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    Bjoern Hartmann, Daniel Lim, Michelle Nguyen, Eldon Schoop,
    Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer. "Drill Sergeant:
    Supporting Physical Construction Projects through an
    Ecosystem of Augmented Tools". CHI conference, August,
    2015.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{HartmannLimNguyenSchoopSavageFollmer15_DrillSergeantSupportingPhysicalConstructionProjects,
        author = {Bjoern Hartmann and Daniel Lim and Michelle Nguyen
                  and Eldon Schoop and Valkyrie Savage and Sean
                  Follmer},
        title = {Drill Sergeant: Supporting Physical Construction
                  Projects through an Ecosystem of Augmented Tools},
        booktitle = {CHI conference},
        month = {August},
        year = {2015},
        abstract = {Mapping techniques from software tutorials onto
                  physical craft processes can assist novices in
                  building multi-material assemblies. By
                  interactively tracking user progress over differ-
                  ent operations, providing guidance and feedback on
                  progress and mistakes, and dynamically adapting
                  tutorials to user con- text and preferences, an
                  ecosystem of smart tools can guide users through
                  complete project tutorials as well as smaller
                  âconstruction macrosâ for their own custom
                  projects. In this paper, we demonstrate how such
                  techniques can be enabled by augmenting common
                  workshop tools (drill/driver, saw, router) with
                  measurement, state sensing and interactive
                  feedback; and sequencing instructions across
                  multiple tools. We validate the benefits of a
                  smart tool ecosystem through reflections on a se-
                  ries of author-created design examples and
                  informal feedback from four fab lab users.},
        URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/644.html}
    }
    

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