FETLAB

To help people better use digital fabrication technology, we want to understand the problems they're running into now. We're doing ethnographically-inspired research into how current users of 3D printers are using their devices, what problems they run into, and how they're overcoming those problems. Currently, we're looking at the e-NABLE community-a worldwide group of volunteers who 3D print prosthetic hands for kids-and how its volunteer fabricators design, customize, print and assemble the hands... How can we quickly interact with our devices? We invent new methods for doing input and output with wearable devices. Previous work we've done in this area includes rings, watches, pendants, bands and gestures. We're currently investigating non-speech-based hands-free microinteraction input techniques... We are located on RIT's campus in room 2330 of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing Information Science building, labeled GOL on the map below.

Primary location: Rochester United States