Special Seminar - Abdullah Muhammad
Speaker
Abdullah Muhammad
PhD Candidate in Human Computer Interaction, Hasso Plattner Institute
When
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Where
Gates Hillman Center 6501
Description
"What Is So Rapid About Prototyping Anyway?"
The declared objective of fabrication technology is to integrate into creative processes, i.e., sequences of design, prototyping, and testing activities, each of which commonly takes place on the minute to hour scale, often involving multiple people. Current fabrication technology, however, is too slow to be part of this process. People thus perform fabrication offline, the involved people split up, and the flow is broken.
In this talk, I will challenge this traditional notion of rapid prototyping. Picking laser cutting as my weapon of choice, I will analyze the traditional fabrication process and identify bottlenecks, especially in the design and assembly of 3D models. I will then aggregate designs, techniques, and algorithms from my most recent 4 CHI/UIST papers into a novel fabrication process design for truly rapid prototyping -- fast enough to allow designing, fabricating, and assembling even human-scale objects in the timeframe of a meeting, thus maintaining the flow.
I will complete my talk by zooming out to the bigger picture of "design for manufacturing and assembly" and how it could—and I would argue should—form the basis of a more encompassing notion of fabrication and rapid prototyping.
Speaker's Bio
Abdullah Muhammad is a PhD candidate in Human Computer Interaction at Patrick Baudisch's lab at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Abdullah received a Master of Science from Kyung Hee University, South Korea in 2018 and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan in 2012, as well as work experience in the telecommunications industry. In his PhD research, Abdullah focuses on personal fabrication, and more specifically on laser cutting. His mission is to speed up the design and assembly of 3D models by an order of magnitude, to allow designers to perform the entire design-prototype/fabricate-evaluate cycle within the timeframe of a meeting. Abdullah publishes his research as full papers at ACM CHI and ACM UIST and has served on the program committees for ACM UIST and ACM DIS.
Speaker's Website
https://www.muhammad-abdullah.com/
Host
Scott Hudson