Eliciting Affordances for Smart Objects in IoT Era

• Published in: Internet of Things. User-Centric IoT pp. 77 - 81
• Main Authors: Matassa, Assunta, Simeoni, Rossana
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015
• Series: Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
• Subjects: Cognitive dissonance; Critical design; Human-Computer interaction

In this paper we suggest a design research method for eliciting affordances and new meanings for Smart Objects in the Internet of Things Era. After an introduction to the topic and the description of some open issues, we propose to adopt a Critical Design approach, where the role of Ambiguity is two...