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I would DiYSE for it!
A manifesto for do-it-yourself internet-of-things creation
Dries De Roeck Artesis University College Antwerp
Karin Slegers CUO | Social Spaces, KULeuven/iMinds
Johan Criel
Marc Godon Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Laurence Clayes
Katriina Kilpi
iMinds-SMIT, VUB
An Jacobs

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DiYSE
• Do-it-Yourself Smart Experiences
• www.dyse.org
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Do it Yourself
• Maker movement
• Digital platforms facilitate (Gauntlett,
2011)
• Community aspect (Kuznetsov & Paulos,
2010)
• Bottom up design
• ‘User’ is in control
C. Anderson - Makers: The new industrial
revolution

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Internet of things
• Connected world (Rubino, Hazenberg &
Huisman, 2012)
• Interactions between digital and non-digital
realms
• Should not be limited to tech savvy people
Image by www.metaproducts.nl

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Gartner hype cycle, updated july 2011 – www.gartner.com

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Risk of internet of things creation
• Technology driven
• People are not in control
• Meaningful products are crucial
• ‘Context aware’ does not cover meaning
• People define the meaning of a context (Heidegger)
•Digital affinity tends to be a prerequisite
•Neglecting of everyday life

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Why a manifesto
• Maker & DIY tradition
• iFixit Self-Repair Manifesto (2010)
• The Maker’s Bill of Rights (2006)
• Description of an ideal system
• Based on user insights
iFixit Self-Repair Manifesto,
2010

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Manifesto origins
• Qualitative data analysis
• 30 users
• 8 month period
• 3 activities (group & individual)
• User groups
• Social crafters
• Families
• IT enthusiasts
• Social (h)activists

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Diary & interviews
• Semi structured
• Current DIY practises
• Frame of reference
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Creation kit
• Technology abstraction
• Lillidot concept
• Concept definition
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Mock-up sensors
• More constraints
• Abstraction levels
• Case driven
• Communicate & make a guide
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#2 “Support a spectrum of
expertise of computational
thinking by offering different
layers of computational
abstractions”
• Amateurs, Pro-am & professionals (Leadbeater, 2004)
• Levels of creativity (Sanders & Stappers, 2008)
• Potential of technology abstraction (Grufberg, 2011)
• Observation
• “What comes naturally to one, may be foreign to
another”

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#4 “Not teach how to program,
but should provide an
ecosystem to support people in
creating ideas or solutions”
• Meta-Design (Fischer, 2004)
• Open Design (Avital, de Mul, 2011)
• Observation
• Product definition & idea generation
is possible
• “If I need something done with
electronics, I call an expert”

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#6 “Be a cradle-to-cradle system
offering playgrounds and
recycling belts”
• Pottering (Taylor, 2008)
• ‘Process is more important than outcome’ (Mau, 1998)
• Observation
• Freedom to begin and to end without finishing
• Doing things to learn about other things
• No planned goal

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Discussion & conclusion
• Rich contextual framework
• For system creators
• Guidelines for an ideal system
• Evaluation
• Existing and new systems
• Complements related HCI
research
• appropriation, end user
programming (Dix, 2007;
Dourish, 1999)
• in a bottom up way
• integrating ‘things’

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“
You the people have the power, the
power to create machines, the
power to create happiness. - C.
Chaplin
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Dries De Roeck
dries.deroeck@artesis.be
@driesderoeck
www.designresearch.be