CrossFAB: Bridging the Gap between Personal Fabrication Research in HCI, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Art, Architecture, and Material Science.

Since 2012, personal fabrication has emerged as a new topic in the HCI community with an increasing number of publications every year. While within HCI, fabrication researchers have already built a strong community; almost no collaboration with other related disciplines, such as computer graphics, robotics, art, architecture, and material science, exists. We believe that especially in the context of HCI, collaboration with other fields can provide valuable input and create new perspectives on HCI challenges. This one-day workshop aims at bridging the gap between related disciplines in the area of personal fabrication by bringing together researchers from different fields. The focus of this workshop is to form connections across disciplines that can give rise to ongoing collaborations and to inspire HCI researchers to reach out into other topic areas for future research.