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Papers
2024
Fiona Bell and Leah Buechley. 2024. Directions for Degradation: Multispecies Entanglements with 3D Printed Biomaterials. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2024 (HTTF 2024). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.
Jaime Gould, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, and Leah Buechley. 2024. TRAvel Slicer: Continuous Extrusion Toolpaths for 3D Printing. In The 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST ’24), October 13–16, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676349
Leah Buechley and Alyshia Bustos. 2024. Characteristics of Conductive Paints and Tapes for Interactive Murals. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 8, 3, Article 92 (September 2024), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678587
Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Mia Shaw, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Ode to Barelas: Supporting Youth Agency Cultural Expression, and Community Engagement Through an Interactive Mural. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2183–2197. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660752
Fiona Bell, Erin Mcclure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Designing 3D Printed Ceramics from a Clay with Tunable Shrinkage. In Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.250
Leah Buechley, Jaime Gould, and Fiona Bell. 2024. CeraMetal: A New Approach to Low-Cost Metal 3D Printing with Bronze Clay. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 348, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642155
Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Deanna Gelosi, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. WeaveSlicer: Expanding the Range of Printable Geometries in Clay. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 352, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642622
Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Mia Shaw, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Interactive Murals: New Opportunities for Collaborative STEAM Learning. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 655, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641987
Fiona Bell, Erin Mcclure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Shape-Changing Clay-Dough: Taking a Material-Oriented Approach to 3D Printing Ceramic Forms. In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 864, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642246
Demonstration: Fiona Bell, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Jaime Gould, Erin Mcclure, Deanna Gelosi, Alyshia N Bustos, Monica Silva Lovato, Jeff Suina, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Demonstrating New Materials, Software, and Hardware from the Hand and Machine Lab. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 396, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3648647
Workshop: Katherine W Song, Fiona Bell, Himani Deshpande, Ilan Mandel, Tiffany Wun, Mirela Alistar, Leah Buechley, Wendy Ju, Jeeeun Kim, Eric Paulos, Samar Sabie, and Ron Wakkary. 2024. Sustainable Unmaking: Designing for Biodegradation, Decay, and Disassembly. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 489, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613905.3636300
Workshop: Fiona Bell, Shanel Wu, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Mirela Alistar, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Making Biomaterials for Sustainable Tangible Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 55, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3634740
2023
Emily Lovell, Leah Buechley, and James Davis. 2023. LilyTiny in the Wild: Studying the Adoption of a Low-Cost Sewable Microcontroller for Computing Education. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 282–293. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595994
Workshop: Laura Devendorf, Leah Buechley, Noura Howell, Jennifer Jacobs, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, Martin Murer, Daniela Rosner, Nica Ross, Robert Soden, Jared Tso, and Clement Zheng. 2023. Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS. In Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563703.3591452
Magazine Article: Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, and Leah Buechley. 2023. Interactive Murals: New Interactions and Educational Opportunities for Diverse Youth. XRDS 29, 4 (Summer 2023), 42–47. https://doi.org/10.1145/3596932
Leah Buechley and Ruby Ta. 2023. 3D Printable Play-Dough: New Biodegradable Materials and Creative Possibilities for Digital Fabrication. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580813
Demonstration: Leah Buechley, Ruby Ta, and Alyssa Johnson. 2023. 3D Printable Play-Dough. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580813
2022
Leah Buechley, Alyshia Bustos, Eleonora Edreva, Tyler Fenske, Reuben Fresquez, Samuel Hafer, Aislinn Handey, Michelle Louie, John Ng, Alan Shen, Randi Smith, Amber Sustaita, Michael Truong, Kai Vallon, and Kage Micaiah Weiss. 2022. A Computational Fabrication Course: Exploring Philosophical Reflection, Real-World Use, Personal Expression, and Social Connection. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 12, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3559400.3562006
Franklin Pezutti-Dyer and Leah Buechley. 2022. Extruder-Turtle: A Library for 3D Printing Delicate, Textured, and Flexible Objects. In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3501312
Melody Horn, Amy Traylor, and Leah Buechley. 2022. Slabforge: Design Software for Slab-Based Ceramics. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 48, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517663
Emily Lovell, Leah Buechley, and James Davis. 2022. The LilyTiny: A Case Study in Expanding Access to Electronic Textiles. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503579
Before 2020
Jie Qi, Leah Buechley, Andrew “bunnie” Huang, Patricia Ng, Sean Cross, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2018. Chibitronics in the Wild: Engaging New Communities in Creating Technology with Paper Electronics. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 252, 1–11.
Mellis, D., Buechley, L., Resnick, M., and Hartmann, B. (2016) Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1270-1281.
Mellis, D. and Buechley, L. (2014). Do-It-Yourself Cellphones: An Investigation into the Possibilities and Limits of High-Tech DIY. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1723-1732.
Qi, J. and Buechley, L. (2014). Sketching in Circuits: Designing and building electronics on paper. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1713-1722.
Jacobs, J., Resnick, M., and Buechley, L. (2014). Dresscode: supporting youth in computational design and making. In Proceedings of Constructionism 2014 Conference. Vienna, Austria.
Vardouli, T. and Buechley, L. (2014). Open Source Architecture: an Exploration of Source Code and Access in Architectural Design. Leonardo Journal of Art, Sciences, and Technology, 47:1, 51-55
Jacobs, J. and Buechley, L. (2013). Codeable objects: computational design and digital fabrication for novice programmers. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). pp. 1589-1598.
Mellis, D., Follmer, S., Hartmann, B., Buechley, L., and Gross, M. (2013). FAB at CHI: digital fabrication tools, design, and community. In CHI ’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 3307-3310.
Qiu, K., Buechley, L., Baafi, E. and Dubow, W. (2013). A curriculum for teaching computer science through computational textiles. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). pp. 20-27.
Jacoby, S. and Buechley, L. (2013). Drawing the electric: storytelling with conductive ink. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 265-268.
Mellis, D., Jacoby, S., Buechley, L., Perner-Wilson, H., and Qi, J. (2013). Microcontrollers as material: crafting circuits with paper, conductive ink, electronic components, and an “untoolkit”. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 83-90.
Buechley, L. and Perner-Wilson, H. (2012). Crafting Technology: Reimagining the Processes, Materials, and Cultures of Electronics. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI), 19:3, pp. 1-21.
Zoran, A. and Buechley L., (2012). Hybrid ReAssemblage: An Exploration of Craft, Digital Fabrication and Artifact Uniqueness. Leonardo Journal of Art, Sciences, and Technology, 46:1.
Mellis, D. and Buechley, L. (2012). Case studies in the personal fabrication of electronic products. In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 268-277.
Qi, Jie and Buechley, L. (2012). Animating paper using shape memory alloys. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 749-752.
Rosner, D., Blanchette, J., Buechley, L., Dourish, P., and Mazmanian, M. (2012). From materials to materiality: connecting practice and theory in HCI. In CHI ’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 2787-2790.
Mellis, D. and Buechley, L. (2012). Collaboration in Open-Source Hardware: Third-Party Variations on the Arduino Duemilanove, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW).
Delle Monache, S., Rocchesso, D., Qi, J., Buechley, L., De Götzen, A. and Cestaro, D. (2012). Paper mechanisms for sonic interaction. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 61-68.
Lovell, E. and Buechley, L. (2011). LilyPond: an online community for sharing e-textile projects. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (C&C ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 365-366.
Mellis, D. and Buechley, L. (2011). Scaffolding creativity with open-source hardware. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (C&C). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 373-374.
Freed, N., Qi, J., Setapen, A., Breazeal, C., Buechley, L., and Raffle, H. (2011). Sticking together: handcrafting personalized communication interfaces. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 238-241.
Perner-Wilson, H., Buechley, L., and Satomi, M. (2011). Handcrafting Textile Interfaces from a Kit-of-No-Parts. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 61-68.
Mellis, D., Gordon, D. and Buechley, L. (2011). Fab FM: the Design, Making, and Modification of an Open-Source Electronic Product. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 81-84.
Buechley, L. and Hill, B. M. (2010). LilyPad in the Wild: How Hardware’s Long Tail is Supporting New Engineering and Design Communities. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Aarhus, Denmark, pp. 199-207.
Kaufmann, B. and Buechley, L., (2010). Amarino: A Toolkit for the Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Ubiquitous Computing. In Proceedings of Mobile HCI. Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 291-298.
Blikstein, P., Buechley, L., Horn, M. and Raffle, H. (2010). A New Age in Tangible Computational Interfaces for Learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences (ICLS).
Lovell, E. and Buechley, L. (2010). An e-sewing tutorial for DIY learning. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. (Barcelona, Spain, June 09 – 12, 2010). IDC ‘10. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 230-233.
Buechley, L., (2010). Questioning Invisibility, IEEE Computer , vol.43, no.4, pp.84-86. (invited submission)
Qi, J. and Buechley, L. (2010). Electronic popables: exploring paper-based computing through an interactive pop-up book. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 121-128.
Perner-Wilson, H. and Buechley, L. (2010). Making textile sensors from scratch. In Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 349-352.
Rosner, D., Perner-Wilson, H., Qi, J., and Buechley, L. (2010). Fine bookbinding meets electronics. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 345-348.
Eisenberg, M., Buechley, L., and Elumeze, N. (2010) Bits and Pieces: Potential Future Scenarios for Children’s Mobile Technology. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 2:2, pp. 37-52.
Buechley, L. and Coelho, M. (2010) Special issue on material computing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 15:2, pp. 113-114.
Buechley, L., Mellis, D., Perner-Wilson, H., Lovell, E., and Kaufmann, B. (2010). Living wall: programmable wallpaper for interactive spaces. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM). ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1401-1402.
Perner-Wilson, H. and Buechley, L. (2010). Handcrafting textile mice. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 434-435.
Buechley, L. (2010). LilyPad Arduino: rethinking the materials and cultures of educational technology. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – Volume 2 (ICLS), Kimberly Gomez, Leilah Lyons, and Joshua Radinsky (Eds.), Vol. 2. International Society of the Learning Sciences, 127-128.
Buechley, L. & Eisenberg, M., (2009). Fabric PCBs, electronic sequins, and socket buttons: techniques for e-textile craft. Personal Ubiquitous Computing, 13(2), pp.133-150.
Coelho, M., Poupyrev, I., Sadi, S., Vertegaal, R., Berzowska, J., Buechley, L., Maes, P., and Oxman, N. (2009). Programming reality: from transitive materials to organic user interfaces. In CHI ’09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4759-4762.
Buechley, L., Rosner, D., Paulos, E., and Williams, A. (2009). DIY for CHI: methods, communities, and values of reuse and customization. In CHI ’09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4823-4826.
Buechley, L., Hendrix, S. and Eisenberg, M. (2009). Paints, paper, and programs: first steps toward the computational sketchbook. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9-12.
Buechley, L., Eisenberg, M., Catchen, J. and Crockett, A. (2008). The LilyPad Arduino: Using Computational Textiles to Investigate Engagement, Aesthetics, and Diversity in Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), Florence, Italy, April 2008, pp. 423-432.
Eisenberg, M. and Buechley, L. (2008). Pervasive Fabrication: Making Construction Ubiquitous in Education. Journal of Software: 3(4), pp. 62-68 (Invited submission)
Buechley, L., and Eisenberg, M. (2008). The LilyPad Arduino: Towards Wearable Engineering for Everyone. Wearable Computing Column in IEEE Pervasive: 7(2), pp 12-15 (Invited submission).
Buechley, L. and Eisenberg, M. (2007). Boda Blocks: A Collaborative Tool for Exploring Tangible Three-Dimensional Cellular Automata. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Rutgers, NJ, USA, July 2007.
Buechley, L., Eisenberg, M. and Elumeze, N. (2007). Towards a Curriculum for Electronic Textiles in the High School Classroom. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Dundee, Scotland, June 2007.
Buechley, L. (2006). A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October, 2006. Winner best paper award.
Buechley, L., Elumeze, N., and Eisenberg, M. (2006). Electronic/Computational Textiles and Children’s Crafts. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC), Tampere, Finland, June 2006.
Buechley, L., Elumeze, N., Dodson, C., and Eisenberg, M. (2005). Quilt Snaps: A Fabric Based Computational Construction Kit. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE), Tokushima, Japan, November 2005.
Eisenberg, M., Buechley, L., and Elumeze, N. (2004). Computation and Construction Kits: Toward the Next Generation of Tangible Building Media for Children. In Proceedings of Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA), Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.
UNM Theses
Books
Buechley, L., Peppler, K.A., Eisenberg, M., and Kafai, Y.B. eds. (2013) Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education. Peter Lang, New York, NY, USA 2013.
Buechley, L., Qiu, K., and de Boer, S. (2013) Sew Electric. HLT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA 2013.