Quantitative Survey and Analysis of Five Maker Spaces at Large, Research-Oriented Universities
Quantitative Survey and Analysis of Five Maker Spaces at Large, Research-Oriented Universities
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大型研究型大学五个创客空间的定量调查与分析
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2016
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U. Lindemann
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C. Forest;Helena Hashemi Farzaneh;Julian Weinmann;U. Lindemann
世界各地的技术大学都在他们的校园里开放制造者空间：为设计、发明和原型提供以学生为中心的非结构化环境的设施和文化。因此，越来越需要调查和了解新出现的趋势和最佳做法，对它们进行比较和对比。为此，我们在五所大学的创客空间进行了采访：斯坦福大学、麻省理工学院、佐治亚理工学院、柏林工业大学和亚利桑那州立大学。这些空间的比较突出了这些区域在焦点、大小、
可获得性、知识产权政策、资金和调查空间的人员配置。我们提取了创客空间大小与当前注册用户数量、员工监督构成和员工与用户比例之间的定量关系。虽然样本量很小，没有覆盖大学教育空间的范围，也没有涉及关键的文化因素，但这项调查和分析为大型研究型机构提供了初步数据集和统计数据，并为相关指标提供了基准。
Technical universities around the world are opening makerspaces on their campuses: facilities and cultures that afford unstructured student-centric environments for design, invention, and prototyping. Consequentially, there is a growing need to survey and understand emergent trends and best practices, to compare and contrast them. Towards this end, we have conducted interviews at five university maker spaces: Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, Technical University of Berlin, and at Arizona State University. The comparison of these spaces highlights similarities and differences in the areas’ foci, size,
accessibility, intellectual property policies, funding and staffing of the surveyed spaces. We extracted quantitative relations between maker space size and number of current registered users, staff supervision composition and staff to user ratio. While the sample size is small, does not span the spectrum of university makerspaces, and does not address crucial cultural factors, this survey and analysis provides an initial dataset and statistics for large, research-oriented institutions and a benchmark for relevant metrics.