Additive creativity: investigating the use of design for additive manufacturing to encourage creativity in the engineering design industry
Additive creativity: investigating the use of design for additive manufacturing to encourage creativity in the engineering design industry
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DOI：
10.1080/21650349.2020.1813633
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发表时间：
2020-09-06
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1.8
通讯作者：
Meisel, Nicholas A.
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作者：
Prabhu, Rohan;Bracken, Jennifer;Meisel, Nicholas A.
增材制造（AM）的能力使设计师能够超越传统制造的限制，生成和构建创造性的解决方案。但是，设计人员还必须适应AM限制，以最大限度地减少构建失败。一些研究人员提出了设计工具和教育干预措施，集成设计AM（DfAM）在工程设计。然而，有必要调查DfAM培训对行业专业人员使用这些技术的影响，以及其对设计创造力的后续影响。在本文中，我们提出了一个研讨会为基础的研究中，行业专业人士依次介绍了机会主义和限制性DfAM。参与者还获得了一个DfAM任务，在每个内容讲座之间进行简短的想法生成会议。比较了受试者接受DfAM训练前后的设计、DfAM和创造性自我效能感。结果表明，DfAM培训成功地提高了参与者的限制性DfAM自我效能感;但是，他们的机会主义DfAM或创造性自我效能感没有变化。此外，结果显示，参与者的设计的独特性和整体创造力有所增加，但在最初的高实用性设计方面没有显着变化。这些发现表明，DfAM培训提供了一个机会，鼓励创造性的想法产生。
The capabilities of additive manufacturing (AM) enable designers to generate and build creative solutions beyond the limitations of traditional manufacturing. However, designers must also accommodate AM limitations to minimize build failures. Several researchers have proposed design tools and educational interventions for integrating design for AM (DfAM) in engineering design. However, there is a need to investigate the effect of DfAM training on industry professionals' use of these techniques and its subsequent effects on the creativity of their designs. In this paper, we present a workshop-based study in which industry professionals were sequentially introduced to opportunistic and restrictive DfAM. Participants were also given a DfAM task, with short idea generation sessions conducted between each content lecture. The participants' designs and their DfAM and creative self-efficacies were compared from before to after receiving DfAM training. The results show that DfAM training successfully increased participants' restrictive DfAM self-efficacy; however, no changes were seen in their opportunistic DfAM or creative self-efficacies. Further, the results show an increase in the uniqueness and overall creativity of the participants' designs, but no significant changes were seen in the initially high usefulness of the designs. These findings suggest that DfAM training presents an opportunity to encourage creative idea generation.