FW-HTF-P: Upskilling Craftspeople to Prepare for the Future of End-user Driven Manufacturing

这项未来工作在人类技术前沿规划（FW-HTF-P）赠款将侧重于初步研究，以收集有关促进工匠参与未来制造业劳动力的挑战和机遇的信息。它还有助于与工艺利益相关者建立一个综合研究框架，以推动前沿技术的发展。该项目将建立一个多学科团队，在三个不同领域创造新知识，以促进对最终用户制造，人机交互，文化和学习以及社会心理学的影响。通过这项规划拨款，该团队的目标是描述工艺最终用户，他们的挑战，障碍和机会，作为未来的制造业劳动力在家里考虑到技术和适当的培训，研究将导致。它将促进一个新的研究框架和验证，即研究人员和手工业者之间的合作可以推动科学和技术的发展。迭代技术开发过程通过反映不同层次的工匠的现实需求和障碍，并适应当前的工艺实践，确定挑战现有工人和社会模式的技术。该项目建立了一个跨多个学科的团队，以建立基础知识并建立衡量最终用户制造成功的指标。该团队将通过野外调查确定消费者关心的产品属性，此外还将与休斯顿工艺中心合作，以接触该中心的专业工匠，确定定制需求，理想的工作流程以及需要通过最终用户软件工具支持的关键设计参数。该项目将导致对材料响应和加工参数之间的相互作用的初步了解（例如，打印速度、材料布局等）在3D打印物体的刚度和强度方面，使用可访问的机器和材料在复合聚合物中计算定制它们。这项研究将通过新技术和最终用户支持工具重塑制造管道，最终用户指定定制需求，单个最终用户制造商可以处理它们以生产个性化产品。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Planning (FW-HTF-P) grant will focus on a preliminary study to gather information on challenges and opportunities for promoting craftspeople to participate in the future manufacturing workforce. It also contributes to an integrative research framework with stakeholders in crafts to push forward the frontier technology. This project will build a multi-disciplinary team to create new knowledge in three diverse areas that advance impacts on end-user fabrication, human-computer interaction, culture and learning, and social psychology. Through this planning grant, the team aims to characterize the craft end-users, their challenges, barriers, and opportunity to serve as the future manufacturing workforce at home given the technology and proper training that the research will result in. It will promote a new research framework and validation that collaborations between researchers and practitioners in crafts can push science and technology forward. The iterative technology development process identifies technologies that challenge existing patterns of workers and society, by reflecting the real-world needs and barriers of craftspeople at various levels and adapting current craft practices.This project builds a team across several disciplines to establish the foundational knowledge and build metrics to measure the success of end-user manufacturing. The team will identify consumer-caring product properties through in-the-wild surveys, in addition to the partnership with the Houston Center for Craft to reach professional craftspeople who are affiliated with the center, identifying customization needs, ideal workflows, and critical design parameters that need to be supported through end-user software tool for custom 3D printing. The project will result in a preliminary understanding of the interplay between material response and processing parameters (e.g., printing speed, material layout, etc.) in 3D printed object’s stiffness and strength, to computationally customize them in composite polymers using accessible machines and materials. This research will reshape the manufacturing pipeline through novel techniques and end-user support tools in which the end-user specifies custom needs and individual end-user manufacturers can process them to produce personalized products.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.