Designing the "Things" of the IoT

Tom  Jenkins

doi:10.1145/2677199.2691608

Designing the "Things" of the IoT

Tom Jenkins

Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Building objects that question implicit assumptions of common systems can help to reframe technological artifacts. This work builds on an inexpensive prototyping
platform that augments everyday objects in minimal ways as an early move towards engaging with the Internet of Things as a site for contestation in interaction design. These intend to account for a broader understanding of design as generating political objects—design things—that draw from the work of Bruno Latour and Studio Atelier. Finally, it introduces the concept of object ecologies as a way to both analyze existing ecosystems of design objects and generate new, speculative ones.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	15 Jan 2015
Pages	449-452
ISBN (Print)	9781450333054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2691608
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction - Stanford University, Palo Alto, United States Duration: 16 Jan 2015 → 19 Jan 2015 Conference number: 9 http://www.tei-conf.org/15/

Conference

Conference	Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Number	9
Location	Stanford University
Country/Territory	United States
City	Palo Alto
Period	16/01/2015 → 19/01/2015
Internet address	http://www.tei-conf.org/15/

Keywords

Internet of Things
Political objects
Object ecologies
Speculative design
Interaction design

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