Title
Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Gap Between Things and Us.
Abstract
Applying a thing-centered, material speculation approach we designed the Morse Things to acknowledge and inquire into the gap between things and us. The Morse Things are sets of ceramic bowls and cups networked together to independently communicate through Morse code in an Internet of Things (IoT). We deployed the Morse Things in the households of six interaction design practitioners and researchers for six weeks. Following the deployment, we conducted a workshop to discuss the role of the Morse Things and ultimately the gap between things and people. We reflect on the nature of living with IoT things and discuss insights into the gap between things and humans that led to the idea of a new type of thing in the home that is neither human-centered technology nor non-digital artifacts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3064663.3064734
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speculation,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Software deployment,Interaction design,Internet of Things,Engineering,Morse code
Conference
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
24
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ron Wakkary1918121.61
Doenja Oogjes2235.89
Sabrina Hauser31098.37
Henry W.J. Lin4294.61
Cheng Cao5253.54
Leo Ma690.46
Tijs Duel790.46