Interactive Tools for Collaborative Digital Fabrication

用于协作数字制造的交互式工具

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-04540
• 负责人: Oehlberg, Lora
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: University of Calgary
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=749885
• 关键词: Interactive; Tools; Collaborative; Digital; Fabrication

Designers create prototypes and artifacts in fabrication spaces, where they gather with communities and collaborators to share access to fabrication equipment and expertise. However, designers may not be collocated with their collaborators or their collaborators' prototypes while designers can remotely communicate, they cannot remotely access physical objects or share their embodied expertise. Distributed collaboration tools have yet to catch up to the reality of hands-on design practice the goal is to build a physical product, but many challenges emerge during physical fabrication and testing, beyond the scope of digital design documents. Complex physical interactions are necessary to understand these challenges and perform collaborative design and fabrication, particularly in real-world evaluation, physical debugging assemblies, and fabrication setup. Tomorrow's remote collaboration tools need to take into account our complex interactions with physical objects. How can new collaboration tools help designers discuss physical prototypes with remote mentors or co-workers? My research in human-computer interaction will address how we should create new interactive experiences that support remote collaboration around physical fabrication. My research team will contribute knowledge to our field by embodying our hypotheses about collaboration tools in software artifacts. We will develop theoretical frameworks on the role of collaboration tools based on qualitative observations and interviews with collaborating designers. We will then design and evaluate our software artifacts in lab-based user studies and in field tests that focus on challenges in distributed collaborative fabrication. This research takes advantage of current momentum behind digital fabrication, and examines how end-user fabrication and customization will change in the face of online communities and global collaboration. It can assist in both non-professional and professional remote collaboration settings. This includes situations where expertise is evenly distributed among collaborators, or where fabrication expertise may be located in a major metropolitan area, yet fabrication machinery may be located in remote sites (e.g., oil fields, the International Space Station).

设计师在制造空间中创建原型和工件，在那里他们与社区和合作者聚集在一起，共享制造设备和专业知识。然而，设计师可能不会与他们的合作者或合作者的原型一起工作，而设计师可以远程交流，他们不能远程访问物理对象或分享他们的具体专业知识。分布式协作工具还没有赶上动手设计实践的现实，目标是构建一个物理产品，但是在物理制造和测试过程中出现了许多挑战，超出了数字设计文档的范围。复杂的物理交互对于理解这些挑战和执行协作设计和制造是必要的，特别是在现实世界的评估、物理调试程序集和制造设置中。未来的远程协作工具需要考虑到我们与物理对象的复杂交互。新的协作工具如何帮助设计师与远程导师或同事讨论物理原型？我在人机交互方面的研究将解决我们应该如何创造新的交互体验，以支持围绕物理制造的远程协作。我的研究团队将通过在软件工件中体现我们关于协作工具的假设，为我们的领域贡献知识。我们将根据定性观察和对合作设计师的采访，开发关于协作工具作用的理论框架。然后，我们将在基于实验室的用户研究和专注于分布式协作制造挑战的现场测试中设计和评估我们的软件工件。本研究利用了当前数字制造背后的势头，并研究了终端用户制造和定制将如何在面对在线社区和全球协作时发生变化。它可以在非专业和专业远程协作设置中提供帮助。这包括专业知识在合作者之间均匀分布的情况，或者制造专业知识可能位于主要都市地区，而制造机械可能位于偏远地点（例如，油田，国际空间站）。