Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience

Ambe, Aloha Hufana; Brereton, Margot; Soro, Alessandro; Chai, Min Zhen; Buys, Laurie; Roe, Paul

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300552

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“…In this respect, the choice of design material plays a central role. Our future research will investigate whether the adoption of a card-based co-design toolkit (e.g., [3,29,50]) can further improve this aspect. & Design tools should also be organized so that designers can be in control of what they define.…”

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User-defined semantics for the design of IoT systems enabling smart interactive experiences

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Desolda

Lanzilotti

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Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Automation in computing systems has always been considered a valuable solution to unburden the user. Internet of Things (IoT) technology best suits automation in different domains, such as home automation, retail, industry, and transportation, to name but a few. While these domains are strongly characterized by implicit user interaction, more recently, automation has been adopted also for the provision of interactive and immersive experiences that actively involve the users. IoT technology thus becomes the key for Smart Interactive Experiences (SIEs), i.e., immersive automated experiences created by orchestrating different devices to enable smart environments to fluidly react to the final users’ behavior. There are domains, e.g., cultural heritage, where these systems and the SIEs can support and provide several benefits. However, experts of such domains, while intrigued by the opportunity to induce SIEs, are facing tough challenges in their everyday work activities when they are required to automate and orchestrate IoT devices without the necessary coding skills. This paper presents a design approach that tries to overcome these difficulties thanks to the adoption of ontologies for defining Event-Condition-Action rules. More specifically, the approach enables domain experts to identify and specify properties of IoT devices through a user-defined semantics that, being closer to the domain experts’ background, facilitates them in automating the IoT devices behavior. We also present a study comparing three different interaction paradigms conceived to support the specification of user-defined semantics through a “transparent” use of ontologies. Based on the results of this study, we work out some lessons learned on how the proposed paradigms help domain experts express their semantics, which in turn facilitates the creation of interactive applications enabling SIEs.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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User-defined semantics for the design of IoT systems enabling smart interactive experiences

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Lanzilotti

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Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…In a study of workshops with older adults using one such toolkit, participants were able to easily brainstorm designs of future technology [47]. Craftec [32] and the IoT Un-kit [2] were created specifcally to engage older adults in prototyping and design.…”

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Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace

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Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Makerspaces are being introduced in a wide variety of settings, including community settings such as schools and libraries. Older adults are one group for whom making agendas are being pursued, with envisioned outcomes such as supporting agency and well-being. However, research on making and DIY with older adults typically study individuals who are already engaged in making practices or bring individuals in to a technology environment that has already been created. In this paper, we study the older adult-driven formation of a makerspace in an independent living community. Through an ethnographically-informed approach, we studied the ways that individuals considered appropriate allocation of resources towards a makerspace, scoped activities, evaluated goals, and made trade-ofs. Our analysis is centered around describing the way that this makerspace formed as well as three ways that individuals made sense of the makerspace as the planning unfolded: the openness of a space that promises to cater to interests of the population; the promise of a makerspace to involve more residents in technology, but the need to obscure the technology to make it appealing; and a valuation of the return on investment for limited fnancial and space resources. Our discussion contributes to supporting and studying early adoption of technology by older adults, complicates visions of "making for all, " and presents considerations regarding the often under-specifed community of a makerspace.

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“…the framework from Vitali et al (2016) aims to analyse IoT dimensions from a product design perspective considering design, technology, market and user lenses; the 'MappingTheIoT Toolkit' supports the design of products with IoT (Ilaria and Venanzio, 2018); and the 'Un-Kit' provides a set of sensors and actuators without functionality or connectivity, meant to encourage engagement "in exploring, designing and generating personally meaningful IoT applications" (Ambe et al, 2019). From a hardware perspective, the literature also provides examples on how to support ideation, conceptualisation and prototyping with IoT devices.…”

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To Support Iot Collaborative Expressiveness on the Shop Floor

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The availability of new research for IoT support and the human-centric perspective of industry 4.0 opens a gap to support operators in unleashing their creativity so they can provide improvements opportunities with IoT technology. This paper presents a case-study carried out in four Swedish manufacturing companies, where four different workshops were facilitated to support operators in the conceptualization of manufacturing improvements with IoT technologies. The empirical material gathered during these workshops has been analyzed in five different reflective sessions and discussed in light of previous research from industry 4.0, operators, and IoT support. Results indicate that operators can collaboratively create conceptual IoT solutions and that expressiveness in communicating their ideas and needs using IoT technology is more relevant than technical aspects and details of their proposed IoT solutions. This technological expressiveness is identified as a necessary skill to be cultivated on the shop floor and can potentially contribute to making a more effective and socially sustainable industrial landscape in the future.

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Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience

Cited by 41 publications

References 63 publications

User-defined semantics for the design of IoT systems enabling smart interactive experiences

User-defined semantics for the design of IoT systems enabling smart interactive experiences

Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace

To Support Iot Collaborative Expressiveness on the Shop Floor

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