Convergence HTF: From Making to Micro-Manufacture: Reimagining Work Beyond Mass Production

智能、互动和高度网络化的机器--人们越来越多地与它们分享自主权和代理权--正在成为景观的一部分，特别是在工作方面。 随着今天的自动化从工厂车间转移到知识和服务行业，需要洞察力和行动来获得提高生产力和增加就业机会的好处，并减轻社会成本。 该奖项支持的研讨会将促进计算机科学，人机交互，电气和机械工程，设计，经济学，社会科学，工业工程和教育等多个研究领域的融合，以确定人类，技术和工作关系的关键挑战和研究必要性。 融合是来自多个领域的知识，理论，方法和数据的深度整合，以形成新的和扩展的框架，以应对科学和社会的挑战和机遇。本次融合研讨会探讨了人类-技术前沿工作的未来，重点是通过在许多分散的地点以有效和可持续的方式生产数百或数千件高质量的制成品，促进对经济贫困地区财富创造的重新概念化的讨论。这种方法被称为“微制造”，其基础是促进人工制品定制生产的技术进步（例如，3D打印、互联网;移动的设备等）。该讲习班的目的是就微型制造模式的可行性展开讨论。研讨会还将探讨基于制造商的创新与微型制造工程流程之间的相互作用。为了启动微型制造讨论，需要包括多种科学，技术，教育和社会利益的观点。特别是，预计研讨会产生的研究问题将需要一个以上的学科的深度整合，从供应链建模和产品设计，经济学，社会学和教育，仅举几例。研讨会的预期成果将包括形成一个研究人员社区，这些研究人员的想法贯穿各个领域，以解决微型制造问题;了解多个相关研究领域如何相互作用以及实现微型制造所需的研究;以及一本文集形式的出版物，向研究界和更广泛的社会通报研究的必要性、可能性与微制造有关的挑战。更广泛的影响主要来自其解决社会对新的工作结构的迫切需要的潜力，这种新的工作结构可能为更广泛的工人带来就业。

Intelligent, interactive, and highly networked machines --with which people increasingly share their autonomy and agency--are a growing part of the landscape, particularly in regard to work. As automation today moves from the factory floor to knowledge and service occupations, insight and action are needed to reap the benefits in increased productivity and increased job opportunities, and to mitigate social costs. The workshop supported by this award will promote the convergence of multiple fields of inquiry from Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Design, Economics, the Social Sciences, Industrial Engineering and Education to define key challenges and research imperatives of the nexus of humans, technology, and work. Convergence is the deep integration of knowledge, theories, methods, and data from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities. This convergence workshop addresses the future of work at the human-technology frontier.The specific focus of this workshop is to foster a discussion about the re-conceptualization of wealth creation in economically distressed areas by enabling the production of high quality manufactured goods at scales of hundreds and thousands in many distributed locations, but in an effective and sustainable manner. This approach, called "Micro-Manufacture," is grounded in technological advances that facilitate customized production of artifacts (e.g., 3D printing, the Internet; mobile devices, etc.). The workshop aims at initiating a discussion about the feasibility of the micro-manufacturing model. The workshop will also explore the interplay between Maker-based innovation and the engineering processes of Micro-Manufacture. To initiate the Micro-Manufacturing discussion, the perspectives of multiple science, technology, educational and societal interests need to be included. In particular, it is expected that research questions emanating from the workshop will require the deep integration of more than one discipline, from supply chain modeling and product design, to economics, sociology and education, to name only a few. The expected outcomes of the workshop will include the formation of a community of researchers with ideas that cross-cut fields to address Micro-Manufacture; an understanding of how the multiple related research areas interact and the research that is needed to enable Micro-Manufacture; and a publication in the form of a collected volume to inform the research community and broader society of the need, possibility, and challenges relating to Micro-Manufacture. The broader impacts accrue mainly from its potential to address society's pressing need for new configurations of work that may bring employment to a broader range of workers.