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Designing the "Things" of the IoT

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 449 - 452

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2691608

Published: 15 January 2015 Publication History

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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.

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Designing the "Things" of the IoT
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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DOI:10.1145/2677199

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Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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RMIT, Australia

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Jenkins T(2021)Cohousing IoT: Technology Design for Life in CommunityMultimodal Technologies and Interaction10.3390/mti50300145:3(14)Online publication date: 21-Mar-2021
https://doi.org/10.3390/mti5030014
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