Instrumenting and Analyzing Fabrication Activities, Users, and Expertise

Explore a 20-minute conference talk from the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems that delves into the instrumentation and analysis of fabrication activities, users, and expertise. Learn about the design of a modular system for capturing data from various sensors to infer contextual information in making and fabrication spaces. Discover how the research team predicted activities being performed, users involved, and their expertise levels based on data collected from fourteen participants with varying skill levels across seven representative making tasks. Gain insights into potential applications of this contextual information for future interactive fabrication environments, including personalized assistance and feedback for users.