Catalog with resources, projects, papers on malleable software, e.g. user-tailorable systems, end-user programming and similar principles.

https://malleable.systems/catalog/

“Using fragments of building rubble from a recycling yard, Matthias Maurer explored how he can capture their surfaces three-dimensionally using photogrammetric techniques. With the help of 3D-printed and milled connecting pieces, which can only be produced with the help of these 3D scans, he tries to integrate the fragments into new functional structures.”

https://masterthesis23.ch/Behind-the-surfaces

StretchText was coined by Ted Nelson and is the idea of having the detail of content in a document to be user-controllable. Meaning that text nodes can be expanded and contracte, for instance depending on reader’s interests. It’s comparable to zooming in the domain of detail or meaning.

Variable Level-of-detail Documents (Weston Beecroft)
http://symbolflux.com/lodessay/

http://www.telescopictext.com

Joe Coleman (personal website)
https://getcoleman.com
Here, the criterion is intensity or confidence.

Broselow pediatric emergency tape is a standardized color-coded tape measure to quickly relate a child’s height to its weight in emergency situations for estimating medication dosages and other medical instructions.

Some links to notes and approaches on end-user programming, or the idea of software as programming environments fundamentally composable by users.

www.inkandswitch.com/

Paul Chiusano: The future of software

“… screws, hinges, nuts, nails, brackets and other hardware extending their original function and character. Like nails that reduce the risk of hitting your finger, two way tie wraps, fancy hinges and screws that smile at you. They give flavour to simple DIY work, review existing furniture and may inspire the carpenter.”

www.linamariekoeppen.de/
www.droog.com/project/

“‘Open Data Cam’ is a tool that helps to quantify the world. With computer vision ‘Open Data Cam’ understands and quantifies what it sees. The simple DIY setup allows everybody to become an urban data miner.”

https://lab.moovel.com/projects/opendatacam

“Printed, laser die-cut orange acrylic stencil containing annotations made by the artist, to page 11 of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. The annotations select, highlight, as well as censor the still in-print publication. Mirroring the mass production of the available book, the work considers the possible multiplication of a personal perspective through the function of the stencil.”

Keyboard with e-ink keys for customizable contextual key layouts.

https://sonderdesign.com

“Objectifier empowers people to train objects in their daily environment to respond to their unique behaviors. It gives an experience of training an artificial intelligence; a shift from a passive consumer to an active, playful director of domestic technology.”

https://bjoernkarmann.dk/objectifier