Humanizing the Internet of Things - Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things

Antonio Pintus, Davide Carboni, Alberto Serra, Andrea Manchinu

2015

Abstract

This paper envisions how the Internet of Things (IoT) complements the Internet of People to build a human-centered Internet-and-Web of Things. The Internet of Things should go beyond the Machine-to-Machine paradigm and must include people in its foundation, resulting in a “Humanized Internet of Things (H-IoT)”. Starting from a relevant work of Fiske, this paper defines how the Human-centred Internet of Things can embed the Fiske patterns in this particular domain. An analysis of some of existing IoT platforms and projects is also presented with the aim to analyse how real implementations are in the same direction of such social patterns.

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Pintus A., Carboni D., Serra A. and Manchinu A. (2015). Humanizing the Internet of Things - Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 498-503. DOI: 10.5220/0005475704980503


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@conference{webist15,
author={Antonio Pintus and Davide Carboni and Alberto Serra and Andrea Manchinu},
title={Humanizing the Internet of Things - Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={498-503},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005475704980503},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Humanizing the Internet of Things - Toward a Human-centered Internet-and-web of Things
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - Pintus A.
AU - Carboni D.
AU - Serra A.
AU - Manchinu A.
PY - 2015
SP - 498
EP - 503
DO - 10.5220/0005475704980503