CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Examining the Design and Use of Internet of Things Technology in Public Life

本研究的目标是促进对物联网(IoT)技术的设计和使用的经验性和系统性的了解，以支持、组织和监控集体社会活动。物联网是一个无处不在的对象系统，具有计算能力，相互连接和通信。这项工作的一个关键成果将是一套全面的设计指南，用于创建物联网技术，任何人都可以使用，这些指南将通过一系列产品和公共参与战略在媒体场所针对社区利益相关者和更普通的受众进行传播。这样的指导方针通常被理解为高级启发式，人们可以接受并将其应用于他们的工作，以生成有效的设计。通过将指导方针体现在使公共生活成为可能的新颖原型的设计中，该项目将帮助人们更容易地以不同的规模参与公共生活。最后，通过在集体设计审查中评估这些原型的优势和局限性，它将产生方法论见解，可供以人为中心的计算、科学技术研究和设计领域的其他研究人员采用和推广。这项经验性设计研究将提供对物联网产品和服务的社会技术配置如何有助于更多地理解和参与构成我们公共生活的互动网络的洞察。具体地说，该研究将“追踪”作为物联网的一种设计策略和一种新的能力，将展示和解释物联网的技术连接性如何以培养更大的社会连接感的方式进行沟通。痕迹是一些其他现象的痕迹，例如作为人们在线活动的副产品而产生的数据。绘制信息技术工程和使用中的痕迹可能会产生对我们公共生活中行为者、结构和过程的复杂网络的理解，从而为行动、洞察和参与带来新的可能性。作为一种设计策略，痕迹可以帮助人们更好地认识到社会技术系统的关联性。因此，这项研究将发现并编纂新的设计指南，以实现成功的公共生活物联网设计。此外，它还将开发研究方法的创新融合，将物联网技术的原型与设计专家和社区成员的外部设计审查相结合，以验证这些原型。

The goal of this research is to advance an empirical and systematic understanding of the design and use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for enabling, organizing, and monitoring collective social activities. The IoT is the ubiquitous system of objects imbued with computational capacity, connected to and communicating with one another. A key result of this work will be a comprehensive set of design guidelines for creating IoT technologies that can be used by anyone, that will be disseminated through a series of products and public engagement strategies targeting community stakeholders and more general audiences in media venues. Such guidelines are commonly understood as high-level heuristics that people can take up and apply to their work to generate effective designs. By embodying the guidelines in the design of novel prototypes that enable public life, this project will help people more easily participate in public life at varying scales. Lastly, by evaluating the strengths and limitations of these prototypes in collective design reviews, it will generate methodological insights that may be adopted and extended by other researchers in the fields of human-centered computing, science and technology studies, and design.This empirical design research will provide insight into how the social-technical configurations of IoT products and services might contribute to more understanding of, and participation in, the networks of interaction that comprise our public lives. In particular, leveraging "tracing" as both a design tactic and a novel capacity of IoT, the research will demonstrate and explain how the technical connectedness that characterizes IoT might be communicated in ways that foster a greater sense of social connectedness. Traces are marks that indicate the passing of some other phenomenon, for example data generated as a by-product of people's online activity. Charting traces in the engineering and use of information technology may produce an understanding of the complex networks of actors, structures, and processes within our public life that leads to new possibilities for action, insight and engagement. As a design tactic, traces can serve to foster a greater sense of the connectedness of socio-technical systems. Thus, this research will discover and codify new design guidelines for successful IoT design for public life. Additionally, it will develop an innovative fusion of research methods, combining the prototyping of IoT technologies with external design reviews from both design experts and community members to validate those prototypes.