Electronic Textiles
Writings and reviews about electronic textiles, which are fabric-based crafts made with conductive thread, microcontrollers, lights, sensors, and other electronic components.
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Jayathirtha, G. & Kafai, Y. (2021). Program Comprehension with Physical Computing: A Structure, Function, and Behavior Analysis of Think-Alouds with High School Students. In the Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 143–149. Link to PDF
Jayathirtha, G. & Kafai, Y. B. (2020). Interactive Stitch Sampler: A Synthesis of a Decade of Research on Using Electronic Textiles to Answer the Who, Where, How, and What for K-12 Computer Science Education. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 20(4), Article No. 28.
Shaw, M., Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2020). Leveraging Local Resources and Contexts for Inclusive Computer Science Classrooms: Reflections from Experienced High School Teachers Implementing Electronic Textiles. Computer Science Education, 30(3), 313-336. Link to free access
Jayathirtha, G. & Kafai, Y. B. (2019). Electronic Textiles in Computer Science Education: A Synthesis of Efforts to Broaden Participation, Increase Interest, and Deepen Learning. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19) (pp. 713-719). New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y.B., Nakajima, T.M., Goode, J., & Margolis, J. (2018). Putting Making into High School Computer Science Classrooms: Promoting Equity in Teaching and Learning with Electronic Textiles in Exploring Computer Science. Equity, Excellence, and Education, 51(1), 21-35. Link to PDF
Litts, B. K., Widman, S. A., Lui, D. A., Walker, J. T., & Kafai, Y. B. (2019). A Maker Studio Model for High School Classrooms: How Critiques Can Support Students’ Electronic Textile Designs. Teachers College Record, 121(9), 1-34.
Lui, D., Kafai, Y.B., Litts, B. K., Walker, J.T., & Widman, S. (2019). Pair physical computing: high school students’ practices and perceptions of collaborative coding and crafting with electronic textiles. Computer Science Education, DOI: 10.1080/08993408.2019.1682378
Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y. B., Nakajima, T., Goode, J. (2017). Teaching practices for making e-textiles in high school computing classrooms. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education (FabLearn ’17). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3141798.3141804. Link to PDF
Litts, B. K., Lui, D. A., Widman, S. A., Walker, J. T., & Kafai, Y. B. (2017). Reflections on Pair E-Crafting: High School Students’ Approaches to Collaboration in Electronic Textiles Projects. In Smith, B. K., Borge, M., Mercier, E., and Lim, K. Y. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2017, Volume 2. Philadelphia, PA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Litts, B.K., Kafai, Y.B., Lui, D., Walker, J.T., & Widman, S.A. (2017). Stitching Codeable Circuits: High School Students' Learning about Circuitry and Coding with Electronic Textiles. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 26(5), 494- 507.
Litts, B. K., Kafai, Y. B., Lui, D., Walker, J., & Widman, S. (2017). Understanding High School Students' Reading, Remixing, and Writing Codeable Circuits for Electronic Textiles. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Fields, D., Landa, J., Nakajima, T., Kafai, Y. B., Goode, J., Margolis, J., & Chapman, G. (2016). Putting Making in Computer Science Classrooms: An Electronic Textiles High School Curriculum for Exploring Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 2016 FabLearn Conference. New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Lui, D., Litts, B., Widman, S., Walker, J. T., & Kafai, Y. B. (2016). Collaborative Maker Activities in the Classroom: Case Studies of High School Student Pairs’ Interactions and Perceptions in Designing Electronic Textiles. In Proceedings of the 2016 FabLearn Conference. New York, NY: ACM. Link to PDF
Searle, K., Fields, D. A. & Kafai, Y. B. (2016). Is “Sewing a girl’s sport”? Addressing Gender Issues in the Maker Culture. In K. Peppler, E. Halverson & Y.B. Kafai M. (Eds.), Makeology: Makers as Learners, Volume 2 (pp. 72-84). New York, NY: Routledge.
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Searle, K. A., (2014). Electronic Textiles as Disruptive Designs: Supporting and Challenging Maker Activities in Schools. Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 532-556. Link to free access
Kafai, Y. B. & Peppler, K. A. (2014). Transparency reconsidered: creative, critical and connected making with e-textiles. In M. Boaler & M. Ratto (Eds.), DIY Citizenship: Participatory Practices of Politics, Culture and Media (pp. 300-310). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Kafai, Y. B., Searle, K. A., Fields, D. A., Lee, E., Kaplan, E. & Lui, D. (2014). A Crafts-Oriented Approach to Computing in High School: Introducing Computational Concepts, Practices and Perspectives with E-Textiles. Transactions on Computing Education, 14(1), 1-20. Link to PDF
Searle, K. A., Fields, D. A., Lui, D. A. & Kafai, Y. B. (2014). Diversifying high school students' views about computing with electronic textiles. In Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on International computing education research (ICER '14). (pp. 75-82). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Searle, K. (2013). Making connections across disciplines in high school workshops. In L. Buechley, K. A. Peppler, M. Eisenberg, & Y. B. Kafai, (Eds.), Textile Messages: Dispatches from the World of Electronic Textiles and Education (pp.). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. Link to free access
Kafai, Y. B., Searle, K., Kaplan, E., Fields, D. A., Lee, E., & Lui, D. (2013). Cupcake Cushions Scooby Doo Shirts and Soft Boomboxes: E-Textiles in High School to Promote Computational Concepts Practices and Perceptions. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13) (pp.311–316). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y. B., & Searle, K. (2012). Functional Aesthetics for Learning: Creative Tensions in Youth e-Textile Designs. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 1 (pp. 196-203). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B. & Fields, D. A. & Searle, K.A. (2012). Making learning visible: Connecting the Learning of Crafts, Circuitry and Coding in Etextiles by Youth Designers. In van Aalst, J., Thompson, K., Jacobson, M. J., & Reimann, P. (Eds.), The Future of Learning: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2012) – Volume 1 (pp. 188-195). Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA: International Society of the Learning Sciences. Link to PDF
Fields, D. A. & Kafai, Y. B. (2011). Crafting Identities: E-Textile Artifacts as Mediators in High Tech Communities. In H. Spada, G. Stahl (Eds), N. Miyake, & N. Law (Eds), CSCL’11 Community Events Proceedings, Vol. 2 (910-911). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Hong Kong, China. Link to PDF
Kafai, Y. B., Fields, D. A., & Searle, K. (2011). Everyday Creativity in Novice E-Textile Designs: Remixing as Interpretive Flexibility. Cognition & Creativity Conference. ACM: Atlanta, GA. Link to PDF
Peppler, K. A., Fields, D. A., Kafai, Y. B., & Glosson, D. (2011). Articulating Creativity in a New Domain: Expert Insights from the Field of E-Textiles. ACM Cognition & Creativity Conference. ACM: Atlanta, GA.
Kafai, Y. B., Peppler, K. A., Burke, W. Q., Moore, M., & Glosson, D. (2010, June). Froebel’s forgotten gift: Textile construction kits as pathways into design, computation. Proceedings of the Interaction Design for Children Conference (IDC10), Barcelona, Spain. Link to PDF