Products as agents: metaphors for designing the products of the IoT Age

Nazli Cila; Iskander Smit; Elisa Giaccardi; Ben Kröse

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025797

Products as agents: metaphors for designing the products of the IoT Age

Nazli Cila, Iskander Smit, Elisa Giaccardi, Ben Kröse

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Design-based inquiries into the networked products of the Internet of Things (IoT) lack a coherent understanding of the effect of such products on society. This paper proposes a new taxonomy for networked products, which would allow articulation on their current state and future, and provide insights to designers for creating meaningful and aesthetic products of IoT. Central to this framework is the proposition that our current product-scape should be understood as a distribution of material agencies and best analyzed through the metaphor of “agency”. We identify three types of agencies, i.e., the Collector, the Actor, and the Creator, and discuss how this approach could create new design methodologies to create more meaningful networked products that would empower people in their everyday lives.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '17
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	448-459
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025797
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI'17
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

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Cila, N, Smit, I, Giaccardi, E & Kröse, B 2017, Products as agents: metaphors for designing the products of the IoT Age. in CHI '17: proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 448-459, 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, United States, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025797

Products as agents: metaphors for designing the products of the IoT Age. / Cila, Nazli; Smit, Iskander; Giaccardi, Elisa et al.
CHI '17: proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 448-459.

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