ABSTRACT
We have argued for the design of computationally-enriched craft activities [Eisenberg et al. 2003; Eisenberg, 2002; Eisenberg, Rubin, and Chen 1998]: activities that combine the affordances of computational media with those of children’s educational crafts. In this poster, we present and describe such an application: a system for the design of pop-up forms in paper, geared toward use by K-12 students. Briefly, the application, Popup Workshop, permits students to create a paper template from which a pop-up form will be created, and to see that form simulated in a three-dimensional rendering. Once the design has been created to the child’s satisfaction, the template may be printed and cut to produce the predicted moving structure.
