Developing a Design Toolkit for the Internet of Things

The Karakuri IoT toolkit: a collaborative solution for ideating and prototyping IoT opportunities

“…However, the terminology often used to present methods and tools like toolkits is inconsistent, making it challenging to map previous tools (Peters et al, 2020). Some examples of toolkits and co-design approaches include the IoT Design Deck 2.0 for co-designing connected products and services in multidisciplinary teams (Dibitonto et al, 2019), the MappingTheIoT Toolkit for helping multidisciplinary teams design IoT products (Vitali and Arquilla, 2018), the IoT Design Kit for aiding creatives in exploring and defining connected products (Roeck et al, 2019), the Un-Kit for assisting older adults with the exploration of sensors and actuators to create IoT applications (Ambe et al, 2019), the IoTgo Toolkit (Rizvi, 2021) for supporting teens and end-users in the ideation and creation of smart things by exploring, ideating, reflecting, programming and prototyping IoT applications, and the Tiles Toolkit, a card deck of 110 cards intended to help people ideate during workshops (Mora et al, 2017). This last toolkit can be combined with electronics during workshops for rapid prototyping (Gianni et al, 2018), where participants can ideate augmented objects (e.g., "smart shower"), and expert developers write the code and make it available to the participants.…”

To Support Iot Collaborative Expressiveness on the Shop Floor

“…the framework from Vitali et al (2016) aims to analyse IoT dimensions from a product design perspective considering design, technology, market and user lenses; the 'MappingTheIoT Toolkit' supports the design of products with IoT (Ilaria and Venanzio, 2018); and the 'Un-Kit' provides a set of sensors and actuators without functionality or connectivity, meant to encourage engagement "in exploring, designing and generating personally meaningful IoT applications" (Ambe et al, 2019). From a hardware perspective, the literature also provides examples on how to support ideation, conceptualisation and prototyping with IoT devices.…”