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Title: | Functional Aesthetics for Learning: Creative Tensions in Youth e-Textile Designs |
Authors: | Fields, Deborah A. Kafai, Yasmin B. Searle, Kristin |
Issue Date: | Jul-2012 |
Publisher: | International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) |
Citation: | Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y. B., & Searle, K. (2012). Functional Aesthetics for Learning: Creative Tensions in Youth e-Textile Designs. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 1, Full Papers (pp. 196-203). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. |
Abstract: | Most research in programming and engineering focuses on students' understanding of functionality as a way to gage their learning, leaving aside aesthetic dimensions. In our work with the LilyPad Arduino, an e-textile construction kit with controller, sensors and actuators that can be embedded via conductive thread and programmed in fabric and garments, we examine how functional aesthetics can play a productive or sometimes unproductive role in learning. Drawing from observations and interviews with 35 high school youth that created e-textile artifacts, we identified three different approaches ranging from giving up on desired designs to making something functional or not finishing or getting a design to work because of unwillingness to give up on aesthetics. We see the third approach, finding a new design that both meets aesthetic desires and matches affordances of the technologies, as particularly promising approach and discuss how aesthetic dimensions can provide important connections in learning. |
URI: | https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/icls2012.1.196 https://repository.isls.org//handle/1/2204 |
Appears in Collections: | ICLS 2012 |
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