Paper Info
Title
Make and connect: enabling people to connect through their things.
Abstract
Staying connected is vital to maintaining good relationships, yet feelings of disconnection or isolation distance, time differences, or simply busy lives. Everyday interactions, family rituals and habits are often lost, in spite of the pervasiveness of smart-phones and personal multi-purpose devices. This project explores novel ways of connecting people over distance through smart objects designed to facilitate routine activities. Our aim is to democratize the design and making of the Internet of Things, by researching and creating easy-to-use kit technologies. This will enable everybody to design and make networks of internet connected things and people to suit their own interest and needs, fostering new kinds of creative thinking, designing and connection. The project aims to connect families through their things to better enable social engagement and connectedness between generations, diaspora and for different cultures.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
OZCHI
Internet privacy,Social connectedness,Computer science,Ambient intelligence,Smart objects,Social engagement,Diaspora,Disconnection,Multimedia,Spite,The Internet
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Margot Brereton145874.48
Min Zhen Chai221.43
Alessandro Soro37917.99
Aloha May Hufana Ambe493.33
Daniel Johnson517931.97
Peta Wyeth675493.64
Paul Roe76215.56
Yvonne Rogers84850448.33