A Design perspective for IoT products. A case study of the Design of a Smart Product and a Smart Company following a crowdfunding campaign

Vitali, Ilaria; Arquilla, Venanzio; Tolino, Umberto

doi:10.1080/14606925.2017.1352770

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“…In order to make the management of these IoTs simple and ensure their seamless integration into the business process, a new type of innovation management framework is required. [5] further stated that technological advancements and the business applications of IoT are rapidly increasing, hence necessitating human/user-centered, technically feasible, financially viable, and marketable products that can create value for both customers and entrepreneurs. Thus, now the focus is not just on innovation, but also on the implementation of innovation.…”

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“…Moreover, the emergence of concepts like IoT and Industry 5.0 poses new opportunities and challenges for business. Although more implementable, practical, useful, and easy to understand, so that firms can get the maximum benefits out of it and cope with the challenges of globalization and technological advancement, e.g., IoT and Industry 5.0 [5,6,10,20,21]. The main aim and objective of the study is to present an innovation management framework that focuses on both customer and entrepreneurial value through user/human-centered products and is perfectly intermingled with the corporate strategy and "routine logic" of the firm.…”

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Innovation in the Era of IoT and Industry 5.0: Absolute Innovation Management (AIM) Framework

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In the modern business environment, characterized by rapid technological advancements and globalization, abetted by IoT and Industry 5.0 phenomenon, innovation is indispensable for competitive advantage and economic growth. However, many organizations are facing problems in its true implementation due to the absence of a practical innovation management framework, which has made the implementation of the concept elusive instead of persuasive. The present study has proposed a new innovation management framework labeled as “Absolute Innovation Management (AIM)” to make innovation more understandable, implementable, and part of the organization’s everyday routine by synergizing the innovation ecosystem, design thinking, and corporate strategy to achieve competitive advantage and economic growth. The current study used an integrative literature review methodology to develop the “Absolute Innovation Management” framework. The absolute innovation management framework links the innovation ecosystem with the corporate strategy of the firm by adopting innovation management as a strategy through design thinking. Thus, making innovation more user/human-centered that is desirable by the customer, viable for business and technically feasible, creating both entrepreneurial and customer value, and boosting corporate venturing and corporate entrepreneurship to achieve competitive advantage and economic growth while addressing the needs of IoT and Industry 5.0 era. In sum, it synergizes innovation, design thinking, and strategy to make businesses future-ready for IoT and industry 5.0 revolution. The present study is significant, as it not only make considerable contributions to the existing literature on innovation management by developing a new framework but also makes the concept more practical, implementable and part of an organization’s everyday routine.

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“…Many authors, indeed, agree on the importance of using physical objects and physical interfaces instead of delegating functions to screens, displays and smartphones through apps (digital interfaces). When a digital and immaterial counterpart augments tangible objects, the value of the physical part must be clarified and highlighted (Vitali, Arquilla& Tolino, 2017). Schurig and Thomas (2017) predict that:…”

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Ethics of technology and design ethics in socio-technical systems

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2020

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This paper addresses many of the issues deriving from both design activity itself and the introduction of technology into everyday life. Relevant authors like Papanek (1984), Thackara (2005) and Manzini (2006) warned about the risks of design activity, as well as the consequences of bringing products to the world. Papanek defined design as the second most harmful profession one can practice, while Thackara claims that design is the cause of many troubling situations in our world (Mink, 2016). Manzini advocates the imminent need for a paradigm shift towards both a more sustainable design and way of living. In , Papanek pointed out that designers have a social and moral responsibility for the consequences of their innovations (Mink, 2016). For this reason, first we cannot ignore the advice, but also, we genuinely believe that designers should include ethical principles in their education. This paper seeks to address design ethics focusing on socio-technical systems and the new challenges introduced by both the Internet of things and artificial intelligence. The methodological framework combines the developed in human computer interaction () and computer ethics with a methodology based on need, requirements and performances developed in architecture. This approach is applied to the development of connected appliances, to conduct our reflections on an applied case study. Some guidelines are drawn at the end of this paper to guide designers in achieving a greater understanding of the ethical implications involved in the design process, establishing the responsibilities and limits of the designer.

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“…Slab! is a kitchen scale intended to result into aesthetical user experience where the digital and physical spheres overlap (Vitali et al, 2017). The appearance of the scale (Figure 2) is essential and natural -high quality wood, soft and smooth outline -, but its paramount feature is that it changes, unveiling its functions, when it comes into contact with the user.…”

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“…As a result, what we are already partly witnessing and mainly envisioning, supported by the opportunities and potentialities of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Everything (Evans, 2011(Evans, , 2012, is the presence of interconnected (eco)systems in which smart, sensory and intel-ligent objects communicate among themselves, as well as with people (Vitali et al, 2017).…”

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Do you think what I think? Strategic ways to design product-human conversation

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Mariani

2018

Strategic Design Research Journal

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This contribution vets into Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) and objects' smart attitudes as emerging contemporary practices.We investigate and discuss the process behind the design and implementation of a product conceived following an idea of intuitive, gesture-based interaction, unpacking and critically analyzing how TUIs are perceived by users. We analyze what it means to experience artifacts whose interactions are triggered by an interface embedded in an object apparently static, but actually technologically augmented and interactive. Through a specific case study, we unfold the results from a qualitative inquiry conducted on a community of prosumers revealing how such interfaces can be misleading. Emerged design issues became challenges for designers and researchers, in a strategic, designerly-ways-of-knowing logic, which led to improving the product keeping into consideration users' expectancies and their actual interactions/behaviors with the product. In conclusion, we reflect on how designers can benefit from extrapolating users' habits and cognitive processes from data, in order to be strategically instrumental in defining future design implementations, features, products, services, and even systems.Keywords. Tangible User Interfaces, IoT, interaction design, user centered design, user behaviour, design process, gesture-based interaction, embodied interface.

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A Design perspective for IoT products. A case study of the Design of a Smart Product and a Smart Company following a crowdfunding campaign

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Innovation in the Era of IoT and Industry 5.0: Absolute Innovation Management (AIM) Framework

Innovation in the Era of IoT and Industry 5.0: Absolute Innovation Management (AIM) Framework

Ethics of technology and design ethics in socio-technical systems

Do you think what I think? Strategic ways to design product-human conversation

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