Korea University of Technology and Education

Hongyeon Kim

Things That Twitter: Social Networks and the Internet of Things

Matthias Kranz, Luis Roalter, Florian Michahelles

2010

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In this paper, Authors investigate on the potential of combining social and

technical networks to collaboratively provide services.

In the Internet of Things (IoT), Things talk and exchange information.

Socio-technical network. Distributed sensor-actor environments. Humans and technical systems.

Abstract.

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World: 1/7, Korea: 1/5

Social network.

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The idea of the IoT. Linking digital information to a network and there by relating

digital information to real world physical items.

Bleecker[1]: As more smart, mobile, sensing ‘Things’ are attached to the In-

ternet, their presence and participation and agency can be felt in our online lives (2nd Life).

“If the social web (IoT) greatly impacted our social lives, how

will an Internet of Things be felt across our lived experiences?”

Socio-Technical Networks.

[1] Bleecker, J., “The Internet of Things: What Happens When 1st Life & 2nd Life Meet Up?”, 2006

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Bleecker’s Focus. What such a social web might look like when network con-

nected ‘Things’ participate.

Our Focus. What the technical systems can themselves participate in so-

cio-technical networks.

Socio-Technical Networks.

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Technological networks. Distributed wireless sensor networks. They share data to accomplish dedicated tasks by exchanging,

assessing and processing information.

Motivations. Networked objects exchange data among themselves. This data is invisible for human users. There is a plentitude of information.

Socio-Technical Networks.

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Twitter (link). Post the events from selected sensors to Twitter. Listen for Tweets themselves from devices.

Robot Operation System (ROS). Services with defined request response messages. Topics where data exchanged via a publish/subscribe architec-

ture.

Cognitive office.

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Sensors. Capacitive sensing,RFID. Skype tangible user interface.

Cognitive office.

T1

T2

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MediaCup. Temperature of cup (hot or cold), Cup is not used, Someone drinks, Someone plays with the cup, Location.

MediaCup-Net (link).

CognitiveMug.

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CognitiveMug.

Location: RFID in a shelf, the dish washer or on the user’s desk, on his coffee mat.

CognitiveMug.

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CognitiveMug mat.

Usage (drinking) patterns. The presence information of mug.

CognitiveMug.

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Botanicalls (link) (twitter)

Koubachi (link)

Auto-cleaning whiteboard (link1 link2).

Perception-Cognition-Action Loops.

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The convergence of social and technical networks. The borders between real worlds and virtual worlds ⇒ vanish.

Implication of Socio-Technical Networks.

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A social network not only connecting humans to each other but also things to human.

CognitiveOffice. It maybe applied in the field of independent living and smart

home environments.

Conclusions.