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Machines as Co-Designers: A Fiction on the Future of Human-Fabrication Machine Interaction

Talkat CHI 2017 · 2017-05-06..05-11· [embedded-and-hardware]
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name:Tom Yeh
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Proposes treating fabrication machines as live collaborators that close the gap between virtual design and physical outcome by letting designers intervene during printing, update geometry mid-build, and receive machine-driven suggestions using simulation and shared analytics. Describes design narratives and demos like a video preview of the 3D printer brain, live gesture-based edits during fabrication, and a cloud-shared printer knowledge base that aggregates print histories. Claims this loop reduces wasted iterations, preserves improvisation, and keeps control while enabling fluid, concurrent human–machine co-design.

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  1. 0:00Introduction to HFI
  2. 2:24Current fabrication machines
  3. 4:36Limitations of 3D printing
  4. 6:44Proposed human-fabrication interaction
  5. 8:55Design goals for collaboration
  6. 9:58Future speculative scenarios
  7. 12:04Closing and Q&A
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