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An Upcycled IoT: Building tomorrow’s IoT out of today’s household possessions

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Kristin Williams,

Jessica Hammer,

Scott E. HudsonAuthors Info & Claims

XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Volume 27, Issue 4

Pages 19 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/3466872

Published: 24 June 2021 Publication History

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An upcycled approach uses everyday objects as design material for IoT systems by enabling users to make their “dumb” objects “smart.” Adopting this approach, IoT Codex realizes a new socially informed, context-aware computing and end-user programming.

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Williams, K.,Pulivarthy, R.,Hudson, S. E., and Hammer, J. The Upcycled Home: Removing barriers to lightweight modification of the home’s everyday objects. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘20). ACM,New-York, 2020 1-13.

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Williams,K.,Hammer,J., and Hudson,S. E.The IoT Codex: A book of paper engineering techniques for authoring and composing embedded computing applications.2020.

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An Upcycled IoT: Building tomorrow’s IoT out of today’s household possessions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Ubiquitous computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing industry
      1. Sustainability

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cover image XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students

XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Volume 27, Issue 4

Computing and Sustainability

Summer 2021

59 pages

ISSN:1528-4972

EISSN:1528-4980

DOI:10.1145/3472736

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Carnegie Mellon University

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