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"Designing future IoT ecosystems requires new approaches and perspectives to\nunderstand everyday practices. While researchers recognize the importance of\nunderstanding social aspects of everyday objects, limited studies have explored\nthe possibilities of combining data-driven patterns with human interpretations\nto investigate emergent relationships among objects. This work presents Thing\nConstellation Visualizer (thingCV), a novel interactive tool for visualizing\nthe social network of objects based on their co-occurrence as computed from a\nlarge collection of photos. ThingCV enables perspective-changing design\nexplorations over the network of objects with scalable links. Two exploratory\nworkshops were conducted to investigate how designers navigate and make sense\nof a network of objects through thingCV. The results of eight participants\nshowed that designers were actively engaged in identifying interesting objects\nand their associated clusters of related objects. The designers projected\nsocial qualities onto the identified objects and their communities.\nFurthermore, the designers changed their perspectives to revisit familiar\ncontexts and to generate new insights through the exploration process. This\nwork contributes a novel approach to combining data-driven models with\ndesignerly interpretations of thing constellation towards More-Than\nHuman-Centred Design of IoT ecosystems."
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