Tag: Ardler
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CHI 2018: Strategies for Engaging Communities in Creating Physical Civic Technologies
Our second CHI paper this year is also from the Ardler Inventors project, picking up a little further down the line during the second and third stages of the project. The ultimate aim of the project was to explore how we could use hackathon-like events, which we called Inventor Days, to catalyse a community of…
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Community Inventor Days in Ardler
A couple of weeks ago I presented our paper Community Inventor Days: Scaffolding Grassroots Innovation with Maker Events at DIS 2017 in Edinburgh. It’s the first publication from our Ardler Inventors project, summing up the series of three hackathon-like events that we ran in Ardler last summer. The paper is open access and available from the…
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Ardler Inventor Day #1: Getting To Know You
When you’re doing research with communities, the first event is always the most nerve-wracking. You’ve made all the contacts, been to the community festival, dished out a small forest’s worth of flyers and posters, bought plenty of biscuits. But will anyone actually turn up? Repurposing Hackathons for Everyone The Ardler Inventor Days are being run…