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Need-finding for Personal Fabricators
1. Andrew Lambert, Rui He, Isaac Piller, James Mohr
Understanding the Practices & Needs of
Personal Fabricators
2. Our cross-functional team of four conducted
a contextual inquiry to discover and
address any unfulfilled human needs in the
Champaign-Urbana Fab Lab.
3. Our users, personal fabricators, are
motivated by personal gain to complete
projects requiring machinery. They work in
“fab labs”.
4. “A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop with an
array of flexible computer controlled tools that cover several different
length scales and various materials, with the aim to make ‘almost
anything’.”
14. Kids expressed wild expectations
about what they could build.
“I want to build a robot!”
-Billy, age 8
15. Parents wanted clear expectations.
“How much does
it cost?”
$ “How much time
does it take?”
“What materials
do we need?”
“I don’t even
know what to do.”
?
26. Reflection
● Challenge: teamwork
○ Teammate who contributed early, but became non-responsive
● Design is a highly collaborative process, extremely beneficial to have
others to bounce ideas off of
● Grad school: qual research is iterative, flexible, key is context