From Ideation to Implications: Directions for the Internet of Things in the Home

TL;DR

This paper explores future directions of home IoT, emphasizing ideation and implications, based on workshops, field studies, and examples of user interactions and device innovations.

Contribution

It introduces tools and methods for ideation and implications in home IoT, highlighting empirical findings and new device classes.

Findings

Emergence of implications through sensor data misuse

User interactions in shared IoT environments

Development of new classes of idiosyncratic IoT devices

Abstract

In this paper we give a brief overview of our approaches and ongoing work for future directions of the Internet of Things (IoT) with a focus on the IoT in the home. We highlight some of our activities including tools and methods for an ideation-driven approach as well as for an implications-driven approach. We point to some findings of workshops and empirical field-studies. We show examples for new classes of idiosyncratic IoT devices, how implications emerge by (mis)using sensor data and how users interacted with IoT systems in shared spaces.