Is it a good idea to design a human centred internet of things?

Paul CoultonProfessor of Speculative and Game Design

Human Centred IoT

Invisibility and SimplicityInvisibility Shield

Constellations

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Constellations

Constellations

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Is it all Heideggers fault?

Present at HandReady to Hand

Speculative Realism

Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Ian Hamilton Grant, and Graham Harman

we don't need no stinkin correlationism

Object Orientated Ontology

but how do we materially engage with philosophy?

Alien Phenomenology

“If a physician is someone who practices medicine, perhaps a metaphysician ought be someone who practices ontology. Just

as one would likely not trust a doctor who had only read and written journal articles about medicine to explain the particular

curiosities of one’s body, so one ought not trust a metaphysician who had only read and written books about the

nature of the universe.” Ian Bogost

Design Fiction as World Building

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Smart Rhetorics

Constellation Rhetorics

Conclusions• What are we saying?

• HCD methods are problematic for IoT constellations.

• OOO provides an alternative framing.

• Design Fiction provides a way of exploring the potential of that framing.

• What we are not saying?

• That HCD is not a useful framing.

• That we are proving the philosophy behind OOO.