Leah Buechley

Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Director, High-Low Tech Group
MIT Media Lab
leah (at) media (dot) mit (dot) edu


About Me
Publications
High-Low Tech Group Site (coming soon...)
LilyPad Arduino Site
My Grad School Site

       
 
Publications
Buechley, L., and Eisenberg, M. (2008). The LilyPad Arduino: Toward Wearable Engineering for Everyone. Wearable Computing Column in IEEE Pervasive. (Invited submission)

Buechley, L., Eisenberg, M., Catchen, J. and Crockett, A. (2008). The LilyPad Arduino: Using Computational Textiles to Investigate Engagement, Aesthetics, and Diversity in Computer Science Education. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI), Florence, Italy, April 2008.

Eisenberg, M. and Buechley, L. (2008). Pervasive Fabrication: Making Construction Ubiquitous in Education. Upcoming in Journal of Software. (Invited submission)

Buechley, L. and Eisenberg, M. (2007) Fabric PCBs, Electronic Sequins, and Socket Buttons: Techniques for E-textile Craft. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. (submitted April 2006, accepted for publication June 2007)

Buechley, L. and Eisenberg, M. (2007) Boda Blocks: A Collaborative Tool for Exploring Tangible Three-Dimensional Cellular Automata. In Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Rutgers, NJ, USA, July 2007.

Buechley, L., Eisenberg, M. and Elumeze, N. (2007) Towards a Curriculum for Electronic Textiles in the High School Classroom. In Proceedings of the Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Dundee, Scotland, June 2007.

Eisenberg, M., Eisenberg, A., Buechley, L. and Elumeze, N. (2006) Invisibility Considered Harmful: Revisiting Traditional Principles of Ubiquitous Computing in the Context of Education. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE), Athens, Greece, November 2006.

Buechley, L. (2006). A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006. Winner of best paper award.

Buechley, L. (2006). The Electric Tank Top. CRAFT Magazine, October 2006.

Buechley, L., Elumeze, N., and Eisenberg, M. (2006). Electronic/Computational Textiles and Children's Crafts. In Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children (IDC), Tampere, Finland, June 2006.

Buechley, L., Elumeze, N., Dodson, C., and Eisenberg, M. (2005). Quilt Snaps: A Fabric Based Computational Construction Kit. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education (WMTE), Tokushima, Japan, November 2005.

Eisenberg, M., Elumeze, N., Buechley, L., Blauvelt G., Hendrix S., and Eisenberg, A. (2005). The Homespun Museum: Computers, Fabrication, and the Design of Personalized Exhibits. In Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition, London, UK, April 2005.

Eisenberg, M., Buechley, L., and Elumeze, N. (2004). Computation and Construction Kits: Toward the Next Generation of Tangible Building Media for Children. In Proceedings of Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA), Lisbon, Portugal, December 2004.

Poster: Buechley, L. (2002). Nonlinear Dynamics of Pacemaker Dependency. In Proceedings of 7th International Chaos Conference, San Diego, CA, USA, August 2002.


Invited talks, demonstrations and workshops
Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Talk: Computational Textiles and the Do-It-Yourself Movement. Smart Fabrics Conference. Charleston, SC, USA, May 2008.

Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Talk: Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing. Stanford University HCI Seminar. Stanford, CA, USA, April 2008.

Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Workshop: LilyPad Arduino. Exploratorium Museum. San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2008.

Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Workshop: LilyPad Arduino. Mediamatic. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 2008.

Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Workshop: Electronic Textiles. Wonder Women Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, March 2008.

Buechley, L. (2008). Invited Workshop: Electronic Textiles. Science Museum of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, March 2008.

Buechley, L. (2007). Invited Talk: Electronic Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing. IBM Research Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2007.

Buechley, L. (2007). Invited Talk: E-Textile Craft. Future Craft: Emerging Processes for Object Design Course, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2007.

Buechley, L. (2007). Tutorial: Building Soft Computers. IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Boston, MA, USA, October 2007.

Buechley, L. (2007). Demonstration: The LilyPad Arduino. IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Boston, MA, USA, October 2007.

Buechley, L. and Donneaud, M. (2007). Presentation/Performance: Reconfigure and Bracelets. Unraveled Fashion Show, SIGGRAPH, San Diego, CA, USA, August, 2007.

Buechley, L. (2007). Invited Workshop: Developing E-textiles for the Ars Electronica campus2.0 exhibit. HyperWerk for Postindustrial Design, Academy for Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland, February, 2007.

Buechley, L. (2006). Invited Workshop: Make Your Own Electronic Fashion. DESIGNCAMP and Engaging Computing Group, University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Lowell, MA, USA, December, 2006.

Buechley, L. (2006). Demonstration: A Construction Kit for Electronic Textiles. IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006.

Buechley, L. (2006). Invited Talk. Center for Digital Media in Education, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, October 2006.

Buechley, L. (2006). Invited Talk. Center for Digital Media in Education, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, June 2006.

Buechley, L. (2006). Invited Talk. INRIA Futurs, Universite Paris-Sud, Paris, France, June 2006.

Eisenberg, M., Eisenberg A. and Buechley, L. (2005). Invited Workshop: Technology and the Future of Children's Crafts. Cooper-Hewitt Summer Design Institute, New York, NY, USA, July 2005.

Buechley, L. and Elumeze, N. (2005). Workshop: New output devices and how they can be used by designers, large and small. Interaction Design and Children conference (IDC), Boulder, CO, USA, June 2005.

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