HowDIY: Towards Meta-Design Tools to Support Anyone to 3D Print Anywhere
summary
A website called HowDIY aggregates millions of Thingiverse designs, scrapes comments from Thingiverse, Reddit, and StackExchange, and analyzes 36 online 3D printing services to surface printable items, show per-design metadata, auto-generated price estimates, and a closed-domain Q&A. The hybrid UI mixes infinite-scroll and wizard layouts to recommend what to print, how to print, and where to print; a two-week deployment with 22 newcomers improves understanding of the three fabrication steps and scores well on creativity support and usability.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to HowDIY
- 1:37Meta-design framework in 3D printing
- 3:08Studies of 3D printing services
- 5:03Designing HowDIY website
- 6:58HowDIY features explained
- 8:06Evaluation and user feedback
- 9:37Future work and conclusions
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