Challenging the role of Human Centred Design for the Internet of Things

1. Why the Internet of Things needs
Object Orientated Ontology
Joseph Lindley , Paul Coulton, Rachel Cooper

2. Human Centred IoT

3. Invisibility and Simplicity
Invisibility Shield

4. Constellations
4
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5. 4
3
Constellations

6. Constellations
4
3Actually I’m an
optical illusion

7. Is it all Heideggers fault?
Present at Hand
Ready to Hand

8. Speculative Realism
Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Ian Hamilton Grant, and Graham Harman
we don't need no
stinkin correlationism!

9. Object Orientated Ontology
but how do we materially engage with philosophy?

10. Alien Phenomenology
“If a physician is someone who
practices medicine, perhaps a metaphysician
ought be someone who practices ontology”.
Ian Bogost

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

14. Smart Rhetorics

15. Constellation Rhetorics

16. 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.