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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  Bjoern Hartmann, Daniel Lim, Michelle Nguyen, Eldon Schoop,
  Valkyrie Savage, Sean Follmer. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/644.html"
  >Drill Sergeant: Supporting Physical Construction
  Projects through an Ecosystem of Augmented Tools</a>,
  CHI conference, August, 2015.

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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
                �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.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/644.html}
  }
  

Posted by Daniel Lim on 7 Oct 2015.
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