From Ideation to Implications: Directions for the Internet of Things in the Home
This work addresses the design and implications of IoT systems for home users, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing approaches without claiming major breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of exploring future directions for the Internet of Things (IoT) in home environments, presenting findings from workshops and field studies that reveal new classes of idiosyncratic IoT devices and user interactions in shared spaces.
In this paper we give a brief overview of our approaches and ongoing work for future directions of the Internet of Things (IoT) with a focus on the IoT in the home. We highlight some of our activities including tools and methods for an ideation-driven approach as well as for an implications-driven approach. We point to some findings of workshops and empirical field-studies. We show examples for new classes of idiosyncratic IoT devices, how implications emerge by (mis)using sensor data and how users interacted with IoT systems in shared spaces.