「事物星系」作為探索未來智慧群體互動設計

Exploring Constellation of Everyday Things to Envision Future Collaboration of Smart Things

目前多數的物聯網設計只是將產品網路化，還無法與產品創造出多元合作的智慧能力，替人們的生活提供新的應用與價值。人機互動學者相繼反思，提出物聯網設計欠缺「群體互動」之系統性思維，並呼籲設計師需要重新理解日常產品在生活脈絡中所展現出的互動模式，進而找出智慧化與物聯網之設計切入點，然而，要從過於熟悉的日常裡獲得群體互動設計靈感是一項挑戰。本研究秉持「透過設計做研究」精神，實際開發工具、執行場域研究並反思過程，提出一套設計研究方法—事物星系，從非人觀點讓研究者重新探索居家日常產品的互動關係，以星系隱喻作分析，詮釋群體星星（產品）的互動模式，藉此啟發設計師與相關學者探索未來智慧群體之設計方向。

Internet of Things [IoT] is a vision that every object can be connected and work as a group to create new experiences in people’s living. However, many existing IoT products are just designed as internet-enabled products that are remotely controlled through the cloud. Design researchers critically reflect that IoT designers are limited by the traditional single product design perspective, and lack of systematic perspective in seeing IoT as a design for collaboration of things. They recalled IoT designers to revisit the everyday practice in identifying ways to design intelligences into the existing products and exploring design inspirations for collaboration of things. This work proposes Thing Constellation, a novel approach to investigating the collaboration of everyday products and exploring the possible design patterns for future intelligent design. This work contributes ways of understanding relationships among people and objects that would be difficult to elicit through traditional observations.