Why the Internet of Things needs Object Orientated Ontology

Joseph Lindley , Paul Coulton, Rachel Cooper

Human Centred IoT

Invisibility and SimplicityInvisibility Shield

Constellations

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Constellations

Constellations

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3Actually I’m an optical illusion

Is it all Heideggers fault?

Present at HandReady to Hand

Speculative Realism

Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Ian Hamilton Grant, and Graham Harman

we don't need no stinkin correlationism!

Object Orientated Ontology

but how do we materially engage with philosophy?

Alien Phenomenology

“If a physician is someone who practices medicine, perhaps a metaphysician ought be someone who practices ontology”.

Ian Bogost

Design Fiction as World Building

Design Fiction World

entry points

differing scales

Design Fiction as World Building Coulton, Lindley, Sturdee, and Stead, 2017

Smart Rhetorics

Constellation Rhetorics

ConclusionsWhat are we saying?

• HCD methods are problematic for IoT constellations.

• OOO provides an alternative framing.

• Design Fiction provides a way of exploring the potential of that framing.

What we are not saying?

• That HCD is not a useful framing.

• That we are proving the philosophy behind OOO.