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——人们越来越多地与之分享他们的自主权和代理权——正在成为景观中日益增长的一部分，特别是在工作方面。今天，随着自动化从工厂车间转移到知识和服务职业，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。由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领域的研究融合，以确定人类、技术和工作之间关系的关键挑战和研究需求。融合是对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。本次融合研讨会将探讨人类技术前沿的未来工作。本次研讨会的具体重点是通过在许多分布的地点以有效和可持续的方式生产成百上千的高质量制成品，促进对经济困难地区财富创造的重新概念化的讨论。这种被称为“微制造”的方法是建立在技术进步的基础上的，这种技术进步促进了人工制品的定制生产（例如，3D打印、互联网、移动设备等）。本次研讨会旨在探讨微制造模式的可行性。研讨会还将探讨基于创客的创新与微制造工程过程之间的相互作用。为了启动微制造的讨论，需要包括多种科学，技术，教育和社会利益的观点。特别是，预计讲习班提出的研究问题将需要多个学科的深度整合，从供应链建模和产品设计，到经济学，社会学和教育学，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，他们的想法是跨领域的，以解决微制造问题；了解多个相关研究领域如何相互作用，以及实现微制造所需的研究；并以收集卷的形式出版，向研究界和更广泛的社会通报与微制造有关的需求、可能性和挑战。更广泛的影响主要来自于它有潜力解决社会对新工作配置的迫切需求，这种需求可能会为更广泛的工人带来就业机会。

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.