Humans In The Loop: The Future of Design and Digital Manufacturing
Date and time
Location
Online event
This event will explore the crucial role of human factors in the future of design and digital manufacturing.
About this event
Summary
We are hosting an exciting cross-theme event between the Digital Futures Human-Centred Design, Industry 5.0, and Employment & Productivity themes.
As we move towards more sophisticated automation, it is increasingly important that everything we design has human understanding, behaviour and ethics at its centre. Researchers at the University are pioneering new methods for ensuring the technology we create has humans at its core.
Industry 5.0 integrates AI and the crucial and exclusively human strengths of problem-solving, value-adding creativity, and deep understanding of customers, to improve products and productivity and enable mass personalisation. This event will bring together researchers from across the University of Manchester's Digital Futures network to discuss the crucial role of human factors in the future of design and digital manufacturing.
The event will be hosted virtually - access links will be shared 24 hours before the event start.
If you have any questions about this event, or would like to present your research in this area, please get in touch with phil.wallace@manchester.ac.uk.
Agenda:
- 10:00-11:15: Presentations (open to public)
- 11:15-12:00: Interactive discussion in breakout groups (internal to UoM only)
Speakers
- Professor Susan Postlethwaite - Professor of Fashion Technology, Manchester Fashion Institute: Agile tooling and Robotics for Reshoring UK Garment Production
- Professor Silvia Massini - Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation, and Dr Mabel Sanchez Barrioluengo, Presidential Fellow in Digital Innovation: Adoption of Digital Technologies and Skills in the North West
- Dr Simeon Gill - Senior Lecturer in Fashion Technology: Human Scale Product Development
- Dr Denham Phipps - Lecturer in Patient Safety: Human factors insights from healthcare
Digital Futures
Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research.
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