Paper Info
Title
Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience.
Abstract
We introduce the IoT Un-Kit Experience, a co-design approach that engages people in exploring, designing and generating personally meaningful IoT applications and that also serves as a means to explore IoT kit design through in-home workshops. Un-Kit represents a seemingly uncompleted set of sensors, actuators and media elements that have a decontextualized appearance - unfinished state, undefined purpose and unboxed form. The approach emphasises users contemplating and experiencing the IoT elements in their familiar space through detailed and layered conversation with researchers; rather than focusing on connecting up the kit itself, thus their ideas are not constrained by the kit or their competence with it. We illustrate the approach through in-home workshops with older adults, envisioned users of IoT who have had limited voice in its conception. The Un-kit approach supported participants to lead the process and to imagine new artfully integrated designs, with personally legible interactions and aesthetic qualities that fit their desire. We offer insights for a more situated and responsive approach to design of the IoT and its constituent kits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3290605.3300552
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
co-design, internet of things, iot, older adults, situated, toolkit
Situated,Co-design,Conversation,Computer science,Internet of Things,Human–computer interaction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5970-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aloha May Hufana Ambe193.33
Margot Brereton245874.48
Alessandro Soro37917.99
Min Zhen Chai421.43
Laurie Buys5646.24
Paul Roe621.37