Beyond prototyping boards: future paradigms for electronics toolkits

2023. Andrea Bianchi, Steve Hodges, David Cuartielles, Hyunjoo Oh, Mannu Lambrichts & Anne Roudaut
Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Abstract

Electronics prototyping platforms such as Arduino enable a wide variety of creators with and without an engineering background to rapidly and inexpensively create interactive prototypes. By opening up the process of prototyping to more creators, and by making it cheaper and quicker, prototyping platforms and toolkits have undoubtedly shaped the HCI community. With this workshop, we aim to understand how recent trends in technology, from reprogrammable digital and analog arrays to printed electronics, and from metamaterials to neurally-inspired processors, might be leveraged in future prototyping platforms and toolkits. Our goal is to go beyond the well-established paradigm of mainstream microcontroller boards, leveraging the more diverse set of technologies that already exist but to date have remained relatively niche. What is the future of electronics prototyping toolkits? How will these tools fit in the current ecosystem? What are the new opportunities for research and commercialization?

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Citation

Bianchi, A., Hodges, S., Cuartielles, D. J., Oh, H., Lambrichts, M., & Roudaut, A. (2023). Beyond prototyping boards: future paradigms for electronics toolkits. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–6).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{bianchi2023beyond,
  title={Beyond prototyping boards: future paradigms for electronics toolkits},
  author={Bianchi, Andrea and Hodges, Steve and Cuartielles, David J and Oh, Hyunjoo and Lambrichts, Mannu and Roudaut, Anne},
  booktitle={Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2023}
}