CHS: Small: Collective Design through Remixing

该项目设置在开放式创新社区的背景下，在这些社区中，人们设计可能部分基于先前贡献的设计的实物产品，探索如何通过在适当的时间向发明家展示正确的相关设计来增强这些社区的创造力，以激发创造性的再混合。3D打印在线社区允许制造者、设计师作为专业业余爱好者分享、修改、组合和打印彼此的设计。这些社区提供了一个理解和改进集体设计的机会，这是一种累积创新的形式。创新过程的改进将有助于经济的增长，设计是一项在教育上吸引许多不同年龄群体、人口统计数据和学术兴趣的活动。本研究将分析一个现有的开放式创新社区。从收集到的数据中，可以构建出一些工具，这些工具建议的设计结合起来更有可能产生有影响力的发明。这些工具将考虑广泛的可能的创新，建议设计空间的领域，可能导致富有成效的发现。由于集体设计取决于参与者的不同专业知识，因此该项目通过创新竞赛将制造商、专业工程师、建筑师和制造商聚集在一起。创客通过在线协作设计流程带来活力、多样性和经验。专业人士带来了实际问题的详细知识，以及与增材制造中使用的材料相关的建模和仿真技术的理解。主要方法是实验性的，通过对现有在线社区的分析，并测试即将开发的新创意支持工具。设想的工具将分析再混合社区的产品和社会网络，以便提出修改或重组的候选设计。关于创新过程的长期理论将在新的背景下得到检验，这可能会导致有关集体创新的新见解，这些见解将在新的工具和系统中得到实例化。数据将被收集，一个系统将被建立，实验将被运行，一场比赛将被主持，和积累的学习，数据和软件将提供给其他感兴趣的研究人员。

The project is set in the context of open innovation communities in which people design physical products that may be based in part on previously contributed designs, exploring how creativity could be enhanced in these communities by presenting the right related designs to an inventor at the right time in order to inspire a creative remixing. 3D printing online communities allow makers, designers characterized as expert amateurs, to share, modify, combine, and print each other's designs. These communities present an opportunity to understand and improve collective design, a form of cumulative innovation. Improvements to innovative processes will contribute to the growth of the economy, and design is an activity that is educationally appealing to many different age groups, demographics, and academic interests. This research will analyze an existing open innovation community. From data gathered, tools will be built that suggest designs that when combined are more likely to result in an impactful invention. These tools will consider a wide range of possible innovations, suggesting areas of the design space that may lead to fruitful discoveries. Because collective design depends on the varied expertise of its participants, the project brings together makers with professional engineers, architects, and fabricators through an innovation contest. The makers bring energy, diversity, and experience with online collaborative design processes. The professionals bring detailed knowledge of practical problems, as well as an understanding of modeling and simulation technology in relation to materials used in additive manufacturing. The primary method is experimental, informed by the analysis of existing online communities, and testing the new creativity support tools that will be developed. The envisioned tools will analyze the products and social networks of remix communities in order to suggest candidate designs for modification or recombination. Long-held theories about innovation processes will be tested in a new context, potentially leading to new insights concerning collective innovation that will be instantiated in new tools and systems. Data will be gathered, a system will be built, experiments will be run, a contest will be hosted, and the accumulated learning, data, and software will be made available to other interested researchers.