Wire Your Way: Hardware-Contextualized Guidance and In-situ Tests for Personalized Circuit Prototyping

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Autori principali: Lertjaturaphat, Punn, Rhee, Jungwoo, You, Jaewon, Bianchi, Andrea
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Lertjaturaphat, Punn
Rhee, Jungwoo
You, Jaewon
Bianchi, Andrea
author_facet Lertjaturaphat, Punn
Rhee, Jungwoo
You, Jaewon
Bianchi, Andrea
contents The increasing popularity of microcontroller platforms like Arduino enables diverse end-user developers to participate in circuit prototyping. Traditionally, follow-along tutorials serve as an essential learning method for makers, and in fact, several prior toolkits leveraged this format as a way to engage new makers. However, literature and our formative study (N=12) show that makers have unique preferences regarding the construction of their circuits and idiosyncratic ways to assess and debug problems, which contrasts with the step-by-step instructional nature of tutorials and those systems leveraging this method. To address this mismatch, we present a prototyping platform that supports personalized circuit construction and debugging. Our system utilizes an augmented breadboard, which is circuit-aware and supports on-the-fly hardware reconfiguration via contextualized guidance and in-situ circuit validation through interactive tests. Through a usability study (N=12), we demonstrate how makers leverage circuit-aware guidance and debugging to support individual building patterns.
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spellingShingle Wire Your Way: Hardware-Contextualized Guidance and In-situ Tests for Personalized Circuit Prototyping
Lertjaturaphat, Punn
Rhee, Jungwoo
You, Jaewon
Bianchi, Andrea
Human-Computer Interaction
The increasing popularity of microcontroller platforms like Arduino enables diverse end-user developers to participate in circuit prototyping. Traditionally, follow-along tutorials serve as an essential learning method for makers, and in fact, several prior toolkits leveraged this format as a way to engage new makers. However, literature and our formative study (N=12) show that makers have unique preferences regarding the construction of their circuits and idiosyncratic ways to assess and debug problems, which contrasts with the step-by-step instructional nature of tutorials and those systems leveraging this method. To address this mismatch, we present a prototyping platform that supports personalized circuit construction and debugging. Our system utilizes an augmented breadboard, which is circuit-aware and supports on-the-fly hardware reconfiguration via contextualized guidance and in-situ circuit validation through interactive tests. Through a usability study (N=12), we demonstrate how makers leverage circuit-aware guidance and debugging to support individual building patterns.
title Wire Your Way: Hardware-Contextualized Guidance and In-situ Tests for Personalized Circuit Prototyping
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05085