Medical Maker Response to COVID-19: Distributed Manufacturing Infrastructure for Stop Gap Protective Equipment

要旨

Unprecedented maker efforts arose in response to COVID-19 medical supply gaps worldwide. Makers in the U.S., participated in peer-production activities to manufacture personal protective equipment (PPE). Whereas, medical makers, who innovate exclusively for points of care, pivoted towards safer, reliable PPE. What were their efforts to pivot medical maker infrastructure towards reliable production of safe equipment at higher volumes? We interviewed 13 medical makers as links between institutions, maker communities, and wider regional industry networks. These medical makers organized stopgap manufacturing in institutional spaces to resolve acute shortages (March--May) and chronic shortages (May--July). They act as intermediaries in efforts to prototype and produce devices under regulatory, material, and human constraints of a pandemic. We re-frame their making efforts as repair work to offer an alternate critical view of optimism around making for crisis. We contribute an understanding of these efforts to inform infrastructure design for making with purpose and safety leading to opportunities for community production of safe devices at scale.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Udaya Lakshmi
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Megan Hofmann
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Kelly Mack
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Scott E. Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Jennifer Mankoff
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Rosa I.. Arriaga
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445395

論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445395

動画

会議: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

セッション: Design Tools / Machine Learning / Fabrication / Visual Artifacts in Design and Ideation

[A] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-11 17:00:00~2021-05-11 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-12 01:00:00~2021-05-12 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 04, 2021-05-12 09:00:00~2021-05-12 11:00:00
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