An internet of social things

Nansen, Bjørn; Ryn, Luke van; Vetere, Frank; Robertson, Toni; Brereton, Margot

doi:10.1145/2686612.2686624

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“…The Tangible Interaction Framework built on these initial directions by situating tangible computing within a social user experience [35]. Individuation subsequently extended this framework and called attention to the routines, habits, and arrangements households use to shape a computationally enhanced object to represent or reflect relationships between household members to develop a research agenda on the social internet of things [8,53]. Thus, IoT became positioned as an artifact based network that facilitated embodied manipulation of computing properties and construction of one's identity and relationships.…”

Section: Costs Of Seamlessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Family Collaboration Around Lightweight Modification of Everyday Objects in the Home

Williams

Pulivarthy

Hudson

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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The internet-of-things (IoT) carries substantial costs by urging households to replace their possessions with new, internet connected versions of everyday objects. Beyond financial, these costs include waste, work to arrange and orchestrate objects to suit households, and that of acquiring new skills. Upcycling domestic objects could offer households greater discretion and control over these costs by supporting the ability to tailor IoT to the home. To understand how households might do this, we conducted a home study with 10 diverse American households over 7 days to surface the approaches families are likely to use when tailoring IoT to their existing possessions. We asked family members to enact their process using endowed sticker props-IoT Stickers-to modify objects in their home. We develop a framework of how families make light weight modifications of domestic possessions, summarize trends of their object modifications, and describe the burdens such a system could impose. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; Ubiquitous computing; HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Section: Costs Of Seamlessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Family Collaboration Around Lightweight Modification of Everyday Objects in the Home

Williams

Pulivarthy

Hudson

et al. 2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…This focus on technology and "solutions" and the absence of people (other than as generic "users") from most IoT scenarios has drawn some critique, especially (understandably) from the human-computer interaction (HCI) community [6,23,29,30]. For example, Koreshoff and colleagues [23] revisited Atzori et al 's IoT framework from a human centric perspective and highlighted some key HCI concerns that were missing from the original framework, such as people sense-making of data, implications for the design of communicating objects, and people's sense-making of things.…”

Section: The Internet Of Thingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the IoT for Healthy Ageing

Soro

Ambe

Brereton

2017

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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There are two distinct bodies of literature on the Internet of Things, one that derives from a technical perspective, while the other comes from a human perspective. From a technical perspective, sensors can automatically detect physical activity, thus enabling elderly people to live independently, while sensors in essence check that they are active, remind them to take their pills, and so on. From a human perspective, people seek control over their lives, good health, social connection, and a sense of well-being that comes from having purpose and feeling competent in daily routines. So are technologies meant to enable users to stay in control of their lives and manage their relations and preferred routines, or do they undermine it, making elderly people feel subjects of surveillance and incompetent, disrupting their daily arrangements? And is there a middle path that we might take in design that creates innovative technologies that are aesthetic in form and function and empowering to use? In this paper, we offer a framework and examples of designs that bridge these perspectives.

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“…The main idea of the theory is that information-driven culture spills and weaves the fabrics of modern society, and information objects are social interaction triggers and anchors of communications [32]. The two types of social networks that we consider in our study -watching relations and group co-memberships -have high degree of object-centered sociality [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Users on Web 2.0 have found it easier to know "who knows what" through online social networks. It is a burden, however, for users to directly contact the person who has the desired knowledge via their personal ties [31]. A oneway self-established watching relationship relieves the burden of contacting other users directly for information while simplifying access to information shared by these users.…”

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“…Because the watching connections are built around users' perceived utility of their social partners' information, we suggest that this is a highly object-centered sociality. It has been demonstrated that social networks established around items of interest are more long-lived than the relationships not sharing any item of interest [31]. Weng and the others (2013) found several kinds of user strategies for socializing on Twitter (i.e.…”

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How to measure information similarity in online social networks: A case study of Citeulike

Lee¹,

Brusilovsky

2017

Information Sciences

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In our presently knowledge-driven society, many information systems encourage users to actively utilize their online social connections' information collections as useful sources. The abundant information-sharing activities among online social connections could be valuable in enhancing and developing a sophisticated user information model. In order to leverage the shared information as a user information model, our preliminary job is to determine how to effectively measure the resulting patterns. However, this task is not easy due to multiple aspects of information and the diversity of information preferences among social connections. Which similarity measure is the most representable for the common interests of multifaceted information among online social connections? This is the main question we will explore in this paper. In order to answer this question, we considered users' self-defined online social connections, specifically in Citeulike, which were built around an object-centered sociality, as the gold standard of shared interests among online social connections. Then, we computed the effectiveness of various similarity measures in their capabilities to estimate the shared interests. The results demonstrate that, instead of focusing on monotonous bookmark-based similarities, it is significantly better to zero in on more cognitively expressible metadata-based similarities in accounting for the shared interests.

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An internet of social things

Cited by 30 publications

References 27 publications

Understanding Family Collaboration Around Lightweight Modification of Everyday Objects in the Home

Understanding Family Collaboration Around Lightweight Modification of Everyday Objects in the Home

Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the IoT for Healthy Ageing

How to measure information similarity in online social networks: A case study of Citeulike

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