At ThingsCon Amsterdam 1 December 2016 Nazli Cila and Iskander Smit hosted a workshop on the concept of products as agents, based on the research activities of Nazli Cila. This presentation is the introduction for the design ideation session.

1. PRO-
DUCTS
AS
AGENTS Nazli Cila
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Iskander Smit
info.nl

9. https://youtu.be/q1teW1bmQUs?t=5m16s

11. The theme of this proposal is:
How can the IOT make a
difference for SOCIETY? How can
we unite people, make them
happier, healthier and make
cities safer, cleaner and
greener with smart applications
of IOT technology?
SOCIETY.

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13. Perhaps we need a new theory of smart and
networked products to help us guide how we
think about them?

14. PRO-
DUCTS
AS
AGENTS

15. IoT is an arrangement of material actants—
nonhuman, computational agents—that
participate actively in daily life (DiSalvo, 2016).

16. Objects are capable of gathering,
processing, displaying, transmitting
and/or taking action on information.

17. Human-
Computer
Interaction
Human-
Computer
Integration
>
Farooq & Grudin, 2016

18. THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

19. The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCYTHREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

20. The Collector The Actor The Creator
Energy Orb

21. The Collector The Actor The Creator
Lapka by Vadik Marmeladov

22. The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCYTHREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

23. Polly by ollyfactory
The Collector The Actor The C

24. The Never Hungry
Caterpillar
The Collector The Actor The C

25. The Amazon Trash Can
by MIT Tangible Media Group
The Collector The Actor The C

26. Anithings, Van Allen &
McVeigh-Schultz
The Collector The Actor The C

27. The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCYTHREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

28. Starfish Self-Modeling Robot
by Creative Machines Lab, Columbia University
The Creator
ODUCT AGENCY

29. The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

30. { “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
{ “id”: “12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
“12288”, “device_mac”: “0c2a6900433a
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31. THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY

32. POT-
ENTIAL
IMPACT

33. THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
TOOLS
Personal

34. GlowCap by Vitality

35. The Talking Trainers
by Google + Adidas

36. PTSD jacket
by Marco Rozendaal

37. The Collector The Actor The Creator
TOOLS
Societal
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
Personal

39. Hello Lamp Post, PAN Studio

40. “Amsterdam lampposts motivate you to go running”
NOS, 18 April 2016

41. donderdag, december 3, 2015
Joey van der Bie
Speerpunt
Urban
Vitality
4
1

42. The Collector The Actor The Creator
TOOLS
Societal
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
The Collector The Actor The Creator
THREE METAPHORS OF PRODUCT AGENCY
Personal
The Collector The Actor The Creator
TOOLS
IMPACT

43. ISSUE
OF
DELE-
GATION

44. Uninvited Guests, by Superflux

45. Time for a walk

48. The system must be adaptable to the
different kind of user because each
person may have different types of
behavior, characteristics, knowledge,
skills and interest. Therefore, it is
useful to design a system that is
able to understand the type of user.
There may be people with special
skills and practices and they seeking
assistance with their activities,
someone who has a general knowledge
and wants to improve his knowledge
during the process or others who need
a real support of help to make the
activity easy and safe.

49. Designing smart products
for people with dementia
TODAY

50. The Netherlands has about 260
thousand people living with
dementia. One in five people in
the Netherlands get dementia.
Over 80 thousand of them are
single and living independently
at home.

52. Template
Matt Madden,
99 ways to tell
a story

53. Monologue
Matt Madden,
99 ways to tell
a story

54. Voyeur
Matt Madden,
99 ways to tell
a story

55. Subjective
Matt Madden,
99 ways to tell
a story

56. From the
fridge
Matt Madden,
99 ways to tell
a story