This study attempts to understand the use of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) in practice to obtain insights to develop design interventions that bring the CPGs into the Internet of Things. Our ultimate aim is to equip CPGs with a layer of smartness so that CPGs could collect information about their use and provide extra services and functionalities. With a practice perspective we developed an assemblage of methods to analyze and represent how people use CPGs. We chose cooking as our practice case and use an auto-ethnographic data sample to demonstrate the application of our methods. Despite the early stage of our study, our methods provide ways to get an understanding of how CPGs are used in practice and an opening to establish opportunities for design interventions.
@article{arxiv.1909.11754,
title = {Finding Design Opportunities for Smartness in Consumer Packaged Goods},
author = {Gustavo Berumen and Joel E. Fischer and Anthony Brown and Martin Baumers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11754},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the CHI 2019 Workshop on New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care, (arXiv:1906.06089)