FW-HTF-P: Fostering Transferable Skills for Future-Ready Extraterrestrial Construction Workforce via an Intelligent-Immersive Training Environment

成为行星际物种的愿景要求建筑业面临前所未有的挑战：外星建筑。我们设想建筑业的未来前沿是外星建筑，工人的角色和他们所需的技能将显着不同。对于设想的未来外星建筑行业，我们的跨学科研究团队有兴趣探索工业4.0新兴技术如何植根于数字化和人工智能，通过将可转移的技能整合到培训环境中，实现未来的建筑劳动力。在这个项目中，指导原则是（1）在未来外星劳动力发展的背景下，更好地理解可转移技能的定义，层次和分类，以及（2）探索和推进通过适应新兴技术实现的培训环境，并重点关注可转移技能，使现有工人为未来的前沿做好准备。我们的跨学科团队将调查这一愿景的技术和人类层面。该项目将调查和确定未来外星建筑的性质和未来工人所需的技能等级，以及可用于整合可转移技能的新兴技术，以培养面向未来的劳动力。此外，我们将使用人工智能辅助的，基于模拟的虚拟结构设计，原型和评估智能沉浸式培训环境，以培训现有工人的特定可转移技能，使他们为未来的前沿做好准备。特别是，该项目团队将探索并建立一个智能沉浸式培训环境的原型，以满足培训专业人员的需求，从而培养未来外星建筑工人的可转移技能。研究工作将在以下三个主要领域推进现有知识：（1）智能沉浸式培训环境对培养可转移技能的有效性，即，计算思维，流体推理和敏捷性，（2）培训环境对提高知识获取，保留，和未来外星建筑工人的表现，以及（3）人工智能-基于学习支架和个性化学习的方法，以满足工作专业人员的特定需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The vision of becoming an interplanetary species requires the construction industry to face an unprecedented challenge: extraterrestrial construction. We envision the future frontier of the construction industry as extraterrestrial construction where the role of workers and their required skills will be significantly different. For the envisioned future extraterrestrial construction industry, our interdisciplinary research team is interested in exploring how Industry 4.0 emerging technologies rooted in digitalization and artificial intelligence can enable a future-ready construction workforce by integrating transferable skills into training environments. In this project, the guiding principles are (1) developing a better understanding of definition, hierarchy, and categorization of transferable skills in the context of future extraterrestrial workforce development, and (2) exploring and advancing training environments enabled by adapting emerging technologies and with a focus on transferable skills to make the existing workers become ready for the future frontier. Our interdisciplinary team will investigate the technological and human dimensions of this vision.This project will investigate and identify the nature of future extraterrestrial construction and the hierarchy of the skills required by future workers, as well as emerging technologies that can be utilized to integrate transferable skills for developing a future-ready workforce. In addition, we will design, prototype, and evaluate an intelligent-immersive training environment using AI-assisted, simulation-based virtual constructs on training the existing workers in specific transferable skills to make them ready for the future frontier. In particular, the project team will explore and prototype an intelligent-immersive training environment that addresses the needs for training working professionals to foster transferable skills of future extraterrestrial construction workers. The research effort will advance existing knowledge in the following three main areas: (1) the effectiveness of the intelligent-immersive training environment for fostering transferable skills, i.e., computational thinking, fluid reasoning, and agility, (2) the effectiveness of the training environment for improving knowledge acquisition, retention, and performance of future extraterrestrial construction workers and (3) an AI-based approach to learning scaffolding and personalized learning in order to address specific needs of working professionals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.