Thing Constellation Visualizer: Exploring Emergent Relationships of Everyday Objects
Yi-Ching 'Janet' Huang, Yu-Ting Cheng, Rung-Huei Liang, Jane Yung-jen, Hsu, Lin-Lin Chen

TL;DR
This paper introduces thingCV, an interactive visualization tool that helps designers explore emergent relationships among everyday objects in IoT ecosystems by combining data-driven patterns with human interpretation.
Contribution
The work presents a novel interactive tool, thingCV, that visualizes social networks of objects and supports perspective-changing design explorations in IoT contexts.
Findings
Designers actively identified interesting objects and clusters.
Participants projected social qualities onto objects and communities.
Exploration led to new insights and reinterpretations of object relationships.
Abstract
Designing future IoT ecosystems requires new approaches and perspectives to understand everyday practices. While researchers recognize the importance of understanding social aspects of everyday objects, limited studies have explored the possibilities of combining data-driven patterns with human interpretations to investigate emergent relationships among objects. This work presents Thing Constellation Visualizer (thingCV), a novel interactive tool for visualizing the social network of objects based on their co-occurrence as computed from a large collection of photos. ThingCV enables perspective-changing design explorations over the network of objects with scalable links. Two exploratory workshops were conducted to investigate how designers navigate and make sense of a network of objects through thingCV. The results of eight participants showed that designers were actively engaged in…
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TopicsInnovative Human-Technology Interaction · Data Visualization and Analytics · Information Systems Theories and Implementation
