Rare Occurrence: Exploring IoT, news media, calm interfaces and infrequent interactions

Positioned as a new digital interaction paradigm and the potential realisation of ubiquitous computing, the ‘Internet of Things’ is associated with ever-widening user-experiences, products and industries. It is rapidly entering the public consciousness. Spanning smart cars, connected toys, cheap ‘maker’ components and sensor-driven smart cities, IoT casts a wide cloak over near-future digital evolution and Human-Computer Interaction. But what about stories? Our research focuses on a novel design approach to news and media IoT devices. If storytelling is embedded in objects, what opportunities lay beyond the confines of the screen? Can the ‘white noise’ of digital news be inverted through infrequent and rarely occurring interactions with media via calm interfaces and ambient technologies? This paper considers if ‘Rare Occurrence’ objects create novel user connections with deconstructed editorial content and describes objects that communicate news or media that happens rarely, and in doing so seek to create meaning and editorial engagement.

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John Mills

Tom Metcalfe

Mark Lochrie

Adrian Gradinar

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 1-3

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[0001]Media Innovation Studio

UCLan

[0002]Thomas Buchanan

Bristol

[0003]LICA

Lancaster University

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.60

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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[1] Á. Arrese 2015 From Gratis to Paywalls: A brief history of a retro-innovation in the press's business Journalism Studies 1 17 DOI:10.1080/1461670X.2015.1027788

[2] H. BauerM. PatelJ. Vera 2014 The Internet of Things: Sizing Up the Opportunity McInsey http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/high-tech/our-insights/the-internet-of-things-sizing-up-the-opportunity 1 March 2016

[3] R.G. Kaiser The Bad News about News, available from http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2014/bad-news# 3 March 2016

[4] M. Castells 2011 The Rise of the Network Society: The Information age: Economy, Society, and Culture 1 John Wiley & Sons

[5] A. CastilloA.D. Thierer 2015 Projecting the Growth and Economic Impact of the Internet of Things Available at SSRN 2618794

[6] K. Doctor 2015 Newsonomics: The halving of America’s Daily Newsrooms Nieman Lab, available from http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/newsonomics-the-halving-of-americas-daily-newsrooms/ 1 March 2016

[7] G. Doyle 2013 Understanding Media Economics SAGE Publications Limited

[8] R. Van KranenburgE. AnzelmoA. BassiD. CaprioS. DodsonM. Ratto 2011 The Internet of things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID Network Notebooks 2

[9] Guardian 2015 National daily newspaper sales fall by half a million in a year available from http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/10/national-daily-newspapers-lose-more-than-half-a-million-readers-in-past-year 3 March 2016

[10] Guardian 2016 Newspaper Closures available from http://www.theguardian.com/media/newspaper-closures 1 March 2016

[11] J. MillsM. LochrieA. DickinsonT. MetcalfeP. Egglestone 2015 November Connected Paper, EKKO and Analytic Futures: News and Paper Data. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces, Madeira, November 15^th-18^th ACM 253 258

[12] C. RowlandE. GoodmanM. CharlierA. LightA. Lui 2015 Designing Connected Products: UX for the Consumer Internet of Things O'Reilly Media, Inc

[13] R SeamansF. Zhu 2014 Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers Management Science 60 2 476 493

[14] A. SerbanatiC. M. MedagliaU. B. Ceipidor 2011 Building blocks of the internet of things: State of the art and beyond INTECH Open Access Publisher

[15] C. Shirky 2009 Here Comes Everybody: How change happens when people come together Penguin UK

[16] H. SundmaekerP. GuilleminP. FriessS. Woelfflé 2010 Vision and challenges for realising the Internet of Things CERP-IOT – Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things

[17] Tweetdeck available from https://about.twitter.com/products/tweetdeck 8 June 2016

[18] Verizon 2015 State of the Market: The Internet of Things 2015 available from http://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_state-of-market-the-market-the-internet-of-things-2015_en_xg.pdf 1 March 2016

[19] M. WeiserJ. S. Brown 1996 Designing calm technology. PowerGrid Journal 1 1 75 85

[20] Wikipedia available from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Rose 1 June 2016

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