IoT Design – Masters Thesis

My Master’s thesis involved the creation of an Internet of Things interface, which I entitled “HomeNodes”. The HomeNodes interface was projected on to to objects. Users could connect objects together using a touch enabled wall interface and by tapping their smartphone on different objects.

The following is a short summary of my project:

1.  Conduct low-fidelity prototyping sessions with users to explore the IoT design space.
2. Research existing interactive systems
3. Construct a prototype
4. Test with users and use observation and video analysis
5. Build a list of topics from this analysis that outlines the important design considerations and feedback for my IoT interface.

Video of the system in action:

The following images are version 1 and 2 of my systems. The green elements in the second image are technologies that I added to make the system more scalable. The thesis can be read and downloaded in full at this link. The code will be available on my GitHub.