About the Authors

Aurimas Bukauskas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ab2005@cam.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Antiopi Koronaki

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ting-Uei Lee

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Daniel Ott

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

M. Wesam Al Asali

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Aftab Jalia

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tom Bashford

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations NIHR Global Health Research Group on Neurotrauma, Division of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Healthcare Design Group, Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Ana Gatóo

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Josh Newman

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Media, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Joseph M. Gattas

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia

Darshil U. Shah

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michael Ramage

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors of this manuscript have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: we disclose here that HappyShield is our CE-marked design, which we have released open source on https://happyshield.github.io/en/, licensed under the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International” License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). We do not intend to gain financially from the release of this face shield design. A disclaimer for the design is provided at https://happyshield.github.io/en/. All others producing face shields based on the designs presented in this paper remain responsible for undergoing any necessary testing and obtaining any necessary approvals before manufacturing and distributing face shields. No patent application has been made for this design. No further modified versions of the design are currently under active development. Any future versions of the design presented in this paper developed by the authors will also be released open-source under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The funding that supported this work is listed in the acknowledgements.