ScrAPP: Enabling Reuse of Scrap Materials with a Smartphone

Troels Ammitsbøl Rasmussen; Asbjørn Stensgaard; Thomas Winding; Timothy Merritt

doi:10.1145/3447527.3474856

ScrAPP: Enabling Reuse of Scrap Materials with a Smartphone

Troels Ammitsbøl Rasmussen, Asbjørn Stensgaard, Thomas Winding, Timothy Merritt

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We introduce scrAPP, a smartphone app that helps designers reuse odd-shaped scrap sheet materials. scrAPP uses a smartphone camera to capture the contour of scrap materials providing precise measurements on the spot enabling users to quickly determine if their CAD models will fit on the material and to then place the models for cutting. This work contributes to the body of work focused on sustainability in digital fabrication through the development of tools for designers. The paper describes the rationale and user-centered approach to the development of scrAPP as well as insights into the needs of creative users gathered from an exploratory preliminary user study. A number of challenges in terms of technical implementation and user experience are explored, and conclusions on the future support for mobile material reuse are provided.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Extended Abstracts of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction : Mobile Apart, Mobile Together
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	27 Sept 2021
Article number	3474856
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450383295
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3447527.3474856
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2021
Event	23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, Mobile Together, MobileHCI 2021 - Virtual, Online, France Duration: 27 Sept 2021 → 1 Oct 2021

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Conference	23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, Mobile Together, MobileHCI 2021
Country/Territory	France
City	Virtual, Online
Period	27/09/2021 → 01/10/2021
Sponsor	ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)

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cnc cutting machines
computer numerical control cutting machines
computer vision
digital fabrication
mobile design tools
sustainability

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Rasmussen, TA, Stensgaard, A, Winding, T & Merritt, T 2021, ScrAPP: Enabling Reuse of Scrap Materials with a Smartphone. in Extended Abstracts of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, Mobile Together., 3474856, Association for Computing Machinery, 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, Mobile Together, MobileHCI 2021, Virtual, Online, France, 27/09/2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447527.3474856

ScrAPP: Enabling Reuse of Scrap Materials with a Smartphone. / Rasmussen, Troels Ammitsbøl; Stensgaard, Asbjørn; Winding, Thomas et al.
Extended Abstracts of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction: Mobile Apart, Mobile Together. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. 3474856.

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