IoTIZER
IoTIZER is a versatile tool for transforming old everyday products into the Internet of Things (IoT). It hijacks various types of existing physical interfaces such as buttons, knobs, and sliders, allowing users to remotely control products. Consequently, users can gain a rich IoT experience while maintaining their existing environment, and it also allows them to test and customize their preferred settings.
IoTIZER was designed through a systematic process. We collected and analyzed pictures of various everyday products to derive a design space for a device that hijacks physical interfaces, and we explored mechanisms for providing universality in attachment and manipulation. Through iterative prototyping, we adopted a polar-coordinated plotter and produced a working prototype. Moreover, our design suggests that it can contribute to lowering the psychological and economic barriers to building an IoT environment, as demonstrated through co-creation workshops with users.
As the lead designer and researcher of this project, I took the initiative in all processes, including ideation, concept design, hardware manufacturing, software development, study design and execution, analysis of study results, and paper writing.
