The document discusses designing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for adoption. It notes that adoption of new technologies follows an S-curve pattern over time as exposure increases from innovators to early adopters to the mainstream. While some IoT devices have seen success, questions remain about privacy, security, and whether IoT is centered around human needs. The document advocates for the use of design fiction and worldbuilding techniques to help envision how IoT could develop in a way that addresses these challenges and facilitates broader adoption. Speculative design approaches are suggested as a way to explore alternative futures and how technologies might be designed to better serve human values and priorities like privacy.

1. Designing for Adoption in the
Internet of Things
Prof Paul Coulton Chair of Speculative Design

2. Anticipating Adoption
Technology
Trigger
Peak Of
Inflated
Expectation
Trough Of Disillusionment Slope of
Enlightenment
Plateau Of Productivity
Time
LevelofExposure/Expectation
Innovators
Early
Majority
Late
Majority Laggards
Chasm
Hype Cycle
Chasm
Emerging
technologies
Adoption Of Technologies Into Everyday Use

3. How are we doing in encouraging IoT Adoption?
My Friend Cayla Visio Smart TV MIRAI Botnet IoT DDos

4. Does IoT have a human centre?

5. Does IoT have a human centre?

6. Perspective Matters
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3

7. Are things the only things that matters?
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8. IoT Constellations
Business
Model
Algorithms
Data
Security
Regulation
Interoperability
Standards
3rd Parties
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9. Object Orientated Ontology
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10. Speculating Futures
HT James Auger
Possible
Futures
Emerging
Technology
Design Fiction
Vapour Worlds
Pasts
Design Fiction
Vapourware in Vapourworlds
Near Futures
Far Futures
Alternate Presents
or Lost Futures
Fantasy Prototypes
Impossible
Fantasy
Technology
Science Fiction
Domestication

11. Design Fiction as World Building
Design Fiction World
entry points
differing scales
Design Fiction as Worldbuilding
Coulton, Lindley, Sturdee, and Stead 2017

14. Smart Rhetorics

15. Constellation Rhetorics

16. IoT and GDPR

17. Designing IoT for GDPR

18. Designing IoT for GDPR

19. Questions
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3Actually I’m an
optical illusion