thingscon salon 4- thingclash workshop recap
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ThingclashScott Smith
Susan Cox-Smith Sjef Van Gaalen
Natalie Kane
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Thingclash is a framework for considering cross-impacts and implications of colliding technologies, systems, cultures and values
around the Internet of Things.
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Project Objectives• To provide a platform for collection of and collaboration around critical
analysis of the IoT
• To find and make legible friction points not only at a technology level, but more importantly at social, economic, and policy levels as well
• To turn this understanding of the landscape into tools useful to technologists, product and service designers, developers, researchers, policy makers and others as they create a more sustainable IoT
• To roll all of this into a broader framework for understanding how the IoT can best fit into the world.
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AR GLASSES
LISTENING DEVICE
TRACKER/MONITOR
SELF-DRIVING CAR
SMART HUB
SMART WATCH
BEACON
APPLIANCE
ROBOTICSVR HEADSET
CHIP CARD PROSTHETIC
DRONE
TRAINING GEAR
SEX TOY
CAMERA
Frictions/Clashes
• Social (behaviors, habits)
• Technical (connections, APIs)
• Business (ecosystems, ownership)
• Values (desires, fears, aspirations)
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Things + Situations + Users
• Motion Tracker /High Status Person
• Self-driving vehicle / Single Parent
• Connected Training Gear / Dependent
• Sex Toy / Person with Disability
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Interesting Insights• Situation complexity emerges quickly
• Appropriation and adaptation do too
• Who is in control, and in what situations?
• Context is experience
• Boundaries are easily crossed / how do we define and make them legible?
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How do we create more flexible, adaptive products, services, systems?
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Collaborate with us• Extend the toolset(s) for exploring and modeling IoT
in the world.
• Add your point of view
• Add to the Critical IoT Reading List
• Host workshops
• Suggest other activities or adventuresThingclash
