CAREER: Enhancing the Integration of Craft and Computing

职业：加强工艺与计算的融合

• 批准号: 1453329
• 负责人: Daniela Rosner
• 金额: $ 52.97万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1453329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Enhancing; Integration; Craft; Computing

This research aims to advance fundamental understanding of the creative process in production-focused design and engineering. Today thousands of artists, designers, and crafts people use computing resources in their work, for example tutorials to prepare for production, 3D printers to generate custom prototypes, and open-source hardware toolkits to weave circuitry into physical artifacts. Although these developments have begun to shape the nature and organization of creative work, most tools to support these practices have not yet adapted to recent shifts by accounting for people's use of social media alongside digital tools for production. This research will enable the development of next-generation digital craft in three ways. Empirically, it unearths novel forms of expression emerging from the integration of computation and making. Theoretically, it will offer a conceptual framework that characterizes emergent forms of digital craft operating at the nexus of labor and leisure, digital and physical, and fabrication and reuse. For design, it will advance techniques for bridging social media and digital production across multiple social contexts.The first phase of the research will involve fieldwork and data analyses to understand current practices around making. Drawing on this empirical work, a conceptual framework will be developed for understanding new forms of creativity and engagement in digital craft. This conceptual framework will then be the basis for concrete systems that demonstrate the principles in different areas. The success of the developed methods will be evaluated through longitudinal field deployments. The investigation will contribute toward a long-term research program advancing reflexive, creative practices with digital technologies to promote responsible social change. It broadens growing bodies of research on materiality, aesthetic interaction and maker cultures to propose, build, and analyze new approaches to the shifting use of computational systems for creative activity. Central to the project is an educational plan to broaden and enhance design learning and class participation. A new graduate course on digital craft will teach students to use physical materials as an entry point for developing novel social technologies, application of developed techniques in an interdisciplinary undergraduate physical computing course to raise issues of collective social concern, and a workshop for middle school girls on physical computing for social change, including specific efforts to support participation of students from other underrepresented groups in learning engineering concepts. The tremendous potential for computer-assisted arts and crafts, as industries as well as avocations, implies that many careers will open up for students who are among the first to learn the necessary skills and principles.

本研究旨在促进对以生产为中心的设计和工程的创造性过程的基本理解。今天，成千上万的艺术家、设计师和手工艺人在他们的工作中使用计算资源，例如准备生产的教程，生成定制原型的3D打印机，以及将电路编织成物理工件的开源硬件工具包。虽然这些发展已经开始塑造创造性工作的性质和组织，但大多数支持这些实践的工具还没有适应最近的变化，因为人们使用社交媒体和数字工具进行生产。这项研究将从三个方面推动下一代数字工艺的发展。从经验上讲，它从计算和制作的结合中发现了新的表达形式。从理论上讲，它将提供一个概念框架，以表征在劳动和休闲，数字和物理，制造和再利用的关系中操作的数字工艺的新兴形式。在设计方面，它将推进跨越多种社会背景的社交媒体和数字生产之间的桥梁技术。研究的第一阶段将包括实地考察和数据分析，以了解当前有关制作的实践。根据这一实证工作，将开发一个概念框架，以理解数字工艺中的新形式的创造力和参与。然后，这个概念框架将成为在不同领域展示原则的具体系统的基础。将通过纵向现场部署来评估所开发方法的成功与否。这项调查将有助于一个长期的研究项目，促进反思，创造性的实践与数字技术，以促进负责任的社会变革。它拓宽了关于物质性、美学互动和创客文化的不断增长的研究机构，提出、构建和分析新的方法，以改变创造性活动中计算系统的使用。该项目的核心是一个教育计划，以扩大和加强设计学习和课堂参与。一门关于数字工艺的新研究生课程将教导学生使用物理材料作为开发新型社会技术的切入点，在跨学科的本科物理计算课程中应用已开发的技术来提出集体社会关注的问题，以及为中学女生举办的物理计算促进社会变革的研讨会。包括支持其他未被充分代表的群体的学生参与学习工程概念的具体努力。计算机辅助艺术和工艺、工业和业余爱好的巨大潜力意味着，许多职业将为那些第一批学习必要技能和原则的学生敞开大门。