Alternative Vision of Living with IoT

TL;DR

This paper explores how alternative lifestyles and subcultures can inform new conceptual frameworks for living with IoT, emphasizing values, norms, and practices that challenge mainstream smart home paradigms.

Contribution

It offers a novel perspective on IoT by integrating insights from subcultures and alternative lifestyles, proposing a reimagined approach to domestic IoT environments.

Findings

Fieldwork on alternative communities and their interaction with IoT.

Development of alternative concepts for smart home design.

Proposes a groundbreaking vision for future domestic IoT living.

Abstract

In this submission, I discuss my research on values, norms and practices of subcultures formed as an "alternative" to the dominant way of life. In particular, I explore how the Internet of Things (IoT) or intelligent agents relates to alternative forms of interaction or be understood and reconstructed through alternative concepts or frameworks. For the past three years I have been conducting fieldwork on communities pursuing alternative lifestyles. This work considers how those alternative lifestyles may contribute to an understanding of objects, spaces in future smart home. Through my fieldwork and research through design, I hope to offer an alternative vision to living with IoT and envision future domesticity in a unique and even groundbreaking way.