The Internet of Things, Home Automation and User Behaviour. Guest lecture at the Aalto Media Factory, Helsinki

1. But It’s My Home‽
Designing Connected Products

2. I - Electricity

3. My first job at Uni

4. “Sure. Let me tell you all
about electricity.”

5. “I have no idea
how much I use…”

6. About at the same time…

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8. “Prosumer?”

9. Not exactly what the consultants meant…

10. “The Read-Write Web”
— Tim O’Reilly

11. “The Read-Write Grid”
— Tom Raftery

12. What happens if we think
electricity with web principles?

14. “But how do I find out how
much I use?”

19. We thought this is the
Golden Age…

20. “1 in 5 people don’t know what kWh
(kilowatt hour) stands for—some
thought it was a make of Japanese
car, a type of heavy goods vehicle or
even a boy band.”
— E.On UK survey

21. “Most consumers interact with their [energy]
provider an average of just nine minutes per
year. These interactions are generally neutral
or negative—typically pertaining to billing,
credit or supply issues.”
— Daniel Yates, OPower

23. II - What Network?

24. 1.5 GFLOPS

25. 1.5 GFLOPS

26. “The WWW project was started to allow high energy
physicists to share data, news, and documentation.”

27. In short, to create a better document access system.

33. X10 Powerhouse for C64, 1986
Thanks to @clurr for finding this nugget.

36. “Communications tools
don't get socially
interesting until they get
technologically boring.”
— Clay Shirky

37. “Communications tools
don't get socially
interesting until they get
technologically boring.”
— Clay Shirky
Anything,
really…

39. “Boil your kettle with
your smart phone,
anywhere in your
home.”

40. courtesy of
fuckyeahinternetfridge.tumblr.com

42. “I sort of regard the network as being like the next
generation of electricity: it will end up hitting all products
sooner or later. But
we won’t really think about
them as being
“networked products,” in the
way we don’t
think about things as
‘electrical
products.‘”
— Matt Webb, BERG

44. III - Forget Platforms

45. (this is me, starting to rant)

49. “We'd like to think of your
entire home as an accessory,
or better yet as a network of
accessories, and think of
Android as the operating
system for your home.”

50. ”Users could manage
their deployment.”

52. Everybody is building platforms,
in the expectation that once they’re there,
developers and designers will build for it.

53. A platform is only that if it is used.

54. IV - So?

58. “Sculpting with Data”
— Boris Anthony

62. “Communications tools
don't get socially
interesting until they get
technologically boring.”
— Clay Shirky

63. V - Other assorted issues

68. Questions?

69. Martin Spindler
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Co-Founder & Managing Director
Internet of People Limited
http://internetofpeople.eu
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Strategy Consultant
Internet of Things | Smart Energy
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http://martinspindler.net
hello@martinspindler.net
twitter.com/mjays

70. Martin Spindler
!
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Internet of People Limited
http://internetofpeople.eu
!
!
Strategy Consultant
Internet of Things | Smart Energy
!
http://martinspindler.net
hello@martinspindler.net
twitter.com/mjays