Building and maintaining knowledge about specific interface technologies is a challenge. Current solutions include standard file-based document repositories, wikis, and other online tools. However, these solutions are often only available in intranets, become outdated and do not support the acquisition of knowledge in an efficient manner. The effort to gain an overview and detailed knowledge about novel interface technologies can be overwhelming and requires to research and read many technical reports and scientific publications. We propose to implement open source online knowledge bases that include building blocks for creating custom workshops to understand and apply the contained knowledge. We demonstrate this concept with a knowledge base for shape-changing interfaces (SCI-KB). The SCI-KB is hosted online at GitHub and fosters collaborative creation of knowledge elements accompanied by practical exercises and workshop elements that can be combined and adapted by individuals or groups of people new to the topic of shape-changing interfaces.

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使用模块化车间元素设计可改变形状的界面的在线知识库

建立和维护有关特定接口技术的知识是一项挑战。当前的解决方案包括标准的基于文件的文档存储库、wiki 和其他在线工具。然而，这些解决方案通常仅在内部网中可用，变得过时并且不支持以有效方式获取知识。获得有关新型接口技术的概述和详细知识的努力可能是压倒性的，需要研究和阅读许多技术报告和科学出版物。我们建议实施开源在线知识库，其中包括用于创建自定义研讨会以理解和应用所含知识的构建块。我们使用形状变化界面 (SCI-KB) 的知识库展示了这一概念。