Make and Connect: Enabling People to Connect through their Things

“物联网”承诺了一个未来，在这个未来，日常事物都连接到互联网，使它们能够共享数据并相互通信。愿景是以技术为中心的，事物不能由最终用户构建。该项目旨在研究“物联网”如何实现民主化：由每个年轻人和老年人，不同文化和偏远地区的人设计和建造，重点关注社会参与和连通性。人们希望能够通过熟悉的物体（如桌子和水壶）进行连接，并使用直观的构建块自己构建界面。预期的项目成果包括新的工具包，新的创造性实践，理论模型和以新方式连接人们的事物网络示例。

The 'Internet of Things' promises a future in which everyday things are all connected to the internet enabling them to share data and communicate with one another. The vision is technology-centric and things cannot be built by end users. This project aims to research how the 'Internet of Things' can be democratised: designed and built by everyone young and old, of different cultures and remote, with a domain focus on enabling social engagement and connectedness. People are expected to be able to connect through familiar objects such as their tables and kettles, and build interfaces themselves with intuitive building blocks. Anticipated project outcomes include new toolkits, new creative practices, a theoretical model and example networks of things connecting people in new ways.