Dries De Roeck's research while affiliated with KU Leuven and other places

... It is further criticized for neglecting insight into the existing and newly created relations between devices, humans and their environment (Desjardins & Wakkary, 2016;Wakkary et al., 2017). Therefore, in an attempt to address a wider range of perspectives on these interactions, various design considerations such as human engagement in IoT interactions as advocated through understanding human qualities with IoT toolkits (Berger et al., 2019), the social implication of IoT devices (Worthy et al., 2016) and other human-centred approaches (De Roeck et al., 2012;Lingel, 2016) have been suggested. These design considerations go further by advocating for a thing-centred perspective to gain better insight into "the complex and ambiguous relations" between devices and humans (Wakkary et al., 2017). ...

... The analytic approach is discussed as there is a lack of concept generation methods from data (Kim et al., 2016), effective design approach for smart PSS service innovation (Zheng et al., 2018) and accordingly, the conceptual frameworks of informatics-based idea generation are proposed (Kim et al., 2016;Lim et al., 2018;Zheng et al., 2018). On the other hand, tools to encourage an intuitive approach are proposed due to the designers' challenges working with data (Lim et al., 2021) or difficulties applying the existing ideation tools for IoT development (de Roeck et al., 2019). Both ways of generating product and service design ideas can be complemented. ...

... Over the past few decades, products, services and systems have become increasingly digitally connected, and as a result of that, the design space that designers engage with becomes a blend of the physical and the digital [11]. Digital design tools, rapid prototyping machinery and physical computing developments have become integral parts of the design process [3]. ...

... Any technology has both positive and negative features to some extent. On the one hand, research Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) showed that companies using methods of analysis of large data, were able to improve profitability by an average of 5-6% (Betts, 2016). ...

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... Due to the increasing technological development in the areas of embedded systems and the Internet of things (IoT), microcontroller-based devices are increasingly applied in various areas of knowledge such as motor control, security systems, elevator control systems [4], power generation monitoring [5] and in applied scientific research [6]. Therefore, teaching embedded systems, microcontrollers, and IoT topics becomes more and more relevant in Science and Engineering courses. ...

... that we will collectively refer to as design stories. We then compare three deliberately diverse IoT toolkits through the design stories they helped to elicit: the IoT Un-Kit Experience [1], a collection of seemingly uncompleted set of sensors and actuators, and media elements with no predetermined purpose of connection; Loaded Dice [5,38,39] a set of two bespoke interactive cubes, embodying IoT sensors and actuators in a ready-to-use way; IoT Ideation Cards [18][19][20] a card based toolkit to co-speculate on future IoT. Three dimensions with two properties each emerge from this inquiry: complexity of design stories, explicated through resolution and scope; likeliness of design stories described through conceivability and feasibility; and implications of design stories detailed as acceptability and consequentiality. ...

... The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) paradigm is increasing, and the reason for which people make things themselves is well explained in [4], where the authors also present a holistic view of how DIY creations are often based on the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, a web of things that are always connected to a communication-enabled network [5]. In [4], the close connection between DIY and IoT is clear. ...

... Usability testing was reported by Zink et al. as the least common singular purpose for prototyping though it is often combined with other purposes [44]. User interface design can be validated through prototyping [11,18,44] and uncover various usability issues [26]. When prototyping for usability testing, Hakim et al. recommends ensuring that metrics such as task completion time, can be captured and considering the protocol for use (e.g. ...

... To-date, research in relation to an LSSDS has related to the development of participatory activities in various educational contexts. Researchers (Antle, Bevans, Tanenbaum, Seaborn, & Wang, 2011;Higgins, Mercier, Burd, & Hatch, 2011;Martinez, Collins, Kay, & Yacef, 2011;Piper & Hollan, 2009;Piper, O'Brien, Morris, & Winograd, 2006;Rick et al., 2009;Schneider et al., 2010;Sluis et al., 2004) have focused on the design of various applications on an LSSDS in the area of education to enhance collaborative learning experiences. Two early papers that are considered significant in the area of multi-touch are centred on Sluis et al. (2004) and Piper, O'Brien, Morris, and Winograd (2006) research. ...