Thingscon Salon 4- Thingclash workshop recap

ThingclashScott Smith

Susan Cox-Smith Sjef Van Gaalen

Natalie Kane

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Thingclash is a framework for considering cross-impacts and implications of colliding technologies, systems, cultures and values

around the Internet of Things.

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Project Objectives• To provide a platform for collection of and collaboration around critical

analysis of the IoT

• To find and make legible friction points not only at a technology level, but more importantly at social, economic, and policy levels as well

• To turn this understanding of the landscape into tools useful to technologists, product and service designers, developers, researchers, policy makers and others as they create a more sustainable IoT

• To roll all of this into a broader framework for understanding how the IoT can best fit into the world.

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AR GLASSES

LISTENING DEVICE

TRACKER/MONITOR

SELF-DRIVING CAR

SMART HUB

SMART WATCH

BEACON

APPLIANCE

ROBOTICSVR HEADSET

CHIP CARD PROSTHETIC

DRONE

TRAINING GEAR

SEX TOY

CAMERA

Frictions/Clashes

• Social (behaviors, habits)

• Technical (connections, APIs)

• Business (ecosystems, ownership)

• Values (desires, fears, aspirations)

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Things + Situations + Users

• Motion Tracker /High Status Person

• Self-driving vehicle / Single Parent

• Connected Training Gear / Dependent

• Sex Toy / Person with Disability

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Interesting Insights• Situation complexity emerges quickly

• Appropriation and adaptation do too

• Who is in control, and in what situations?

• Context is experience

• Boundaries are easily crossed / how do we define and make them legible?

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How do we create more flexible, adaptive products, services, systems?

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Collaborate with us• Extend the toolset(s) for exploring and modeling IoT

in the world.

• Add your point of view

• Add to the Critical IoT Reading List

• Host workshops

• Suggest other activities or adventuresThingclash

Find us at: thingclash.com

@thingclash ssmith@changeist.com

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