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Eliciting Affordances for Smart Objects in IoT Era

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In this paper we suggest a design research method for eliciting affordances and new meanings for Smart Objects in the Internet of Things Era. After an introduction to the topic and the description of some open issues, we propose to adopt a Critical Design approach, where the role of Ambiguity is twofold: on the one hand, it is the objective of the observation for defining a set of ambiguous objects or affordances; on the other hand, it is the result of a design conceptualization of smart objects aiming at provoking cognitive dissonance and finalized to understand people adaptation processes and behaviors.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, 10149, Turin, Italy

    Assunta Matassa

  2. Open Innovation Research, Telecom Italia, 10148, Turin, Italy

    Rossana Simeoni

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  1. CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy

    Raffaele Giaffreda

  2. University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu

  3. Management Consultant, Edna Pasher Ph.D & Associates, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Edna Pasher

  4. Management Consultant, Edna Pasher Ph.D & Associates, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Gabriel Bendersky

  5. University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Information Systems, Delémont, Switzerland

    Antonio J. Jara

  6. University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

    Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues

  7. IBM Research Laboratory, Haifa, Israel

    Eliezer Dekel

  8. IBM Research, Haifa, Israel

    Benny Mandler

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Matassa, A., Simeoni, R. (2015). Eliciting Affordances for Smart Objects in IoT Era. In: Giaffreda, R., et al. Internet of Things. User-Centric IoT. IoT360 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19656-5_12

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