Snowflakes: A prototyping tool for computational jewelry

Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk; Çaǧlar Genç; İhsan Ozan Yıldırım; Mehmet Cengiz  Onbaşlı; Oğuzhan Özcan

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445173

Snowflakes: A prototyping tool for computational jewelry

Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk
, Çaǧlar Genç
, İhsan Ozan Yıldırım
, Mehmet Cengiz Onbaşlı
, Oğuzhan Özcan

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Abstract

Smart-jewelry design has many layers such as comfort, ergonomics, fashionability, interactivity and functionality that create a complex design process, making the form exploration challenging. Various wearable prototyping tools were developed to overcome this chal-lenge; however, they are usually textile-based and do not target smart jewelry design. To bridge this gap, we developed Snowfakes that diferentiates from existing tools by 1) allowing designers to ex-plore diferent jewelry forms, 2) incorporating external materials such as leather, 3) creating form factors that ft body parts with fexible con-nectors. In this paper, we explain the design process of Snowfakeswhich is inspired by 7 design parameters (limbs, materials, grip, fastener, decoration, placement, form) extracted through the ex-amination of non-smart jewelry. We also demonstrate three reim-plementations and design concepts implemented with Snowfakes.Our exploration with Snowfakes contributes to the wearable community in terms of smart-jewelry visual expressions, interaction modalities, and merger of traditional and computational materials.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450380966
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445173
Publication status	Published - May 2021
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	ACM SIGCHI annual conference on human factors in computing systems - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI annual conference on human factors in computing systems
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	8/05/21 → 13/05/21

Funding

This project has been undertaken in the Koç University - Arçe-lik Research Center for Creative Industries which is funded by Arçelik. Oğuz ’Oz’ Buruk has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 833731, WEARTUAL. Çağlar Genç is funded by the Academy of Finland as part of the TechFashion - Design of Future Wearable Computing project.

Keywords

Computational materials
Design research
Development
Fabrication
Maker
Prototyping
research through design
Smart jewellery
Wearable technology

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Publication forum level 2

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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