Crafting a Healthier Internet: People, Things and our Digital Society

打造更健康的互联网：人、物和我们的数字社会

• 批准号: AH/V005189/1
• 负责人: Justin Marshall
• 金额: $ 89.63万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV005189%2F1
• 关键词: Crafting; Healthier; Internet; People; Things

The aim for this project is to explore how we can define and foster a healthy relationship between people, the internet and things using the ethos and practices of craft, informed by knowledge within the humanities, augmented with technical know-how and leveraging citizen engagement/collaboration. The internet is a powerful force in society. Since the inception of the World Wide Web, the internet was held up as a place of wonder, creativity and opportunity. Yet it is currently in a very problematic position: fake news, centralisation of power, the dominant control of a select number of technology giants, disinformation, the weaponization of social media, the undermining of democratic processes, mass manipulation of citizens, cyber crimes and abuse of personal data are internationally recognised as areas of significant concern. As more and more everyday objects become internet-connected, become part of the Internet of Things (IoT), these questions of trust, privacy, security and abuse of data will become more pressing, as anxieties over the eavesdropping capabilities of smart speakers such as Alexa demonstrate. Furthermore, it is widely recognised, and even promoted, that industrial design has led to a step-change in the way that digital technology companies are able to significantly amplify the reach of their products (Apple being the most obvious example). Yet this has led to a wholly unsustainable, homogeneous, global culture of two-year life-cycle devices and an internet that is being 'colonised' by a handful of US and Chinese companies. These issues are not ones that can be addressed exclusively with technological innovation and instrumental solutions. They require initiatives that consider the social and ethical implications and consequences (intended or not) of the underlying ethos and structure on which internet businesses are founded. We will be partnering with Mozilla, and inspired by their Internet Health Report, we are challenging existing 'unhealthy' ways in which the IoT is being conceptualised and implemented (i.e. privileging economic business models over user agency, lacking openness, transparency and legibility) and provide an alternative 'healthier' trajectory for IoT development. While design often aspires to ubiquity and standardisation, craft thrives on specificity and bespokeness, which is often rooted in localism, and embodies the values of authenticity, provenance and care. Through working at a local level, in terms of both consideration and production, we seek to bring new perspectives and methods for conceptualizing and creating forms of IoT, embodying our craft ethos. As such we will create compelling examples of context specific, meaningful and trusted forms IoT in order to explore and understand the ways that we can change current trajectories across the sector.Based in the North East of England, this project will work closely with local groups, businesses, organisations and individuals, alongside experts from design, craft and the Humanities to critique existing IoT offerings. Craft centred explorations will result in radical reimaginings of what an IoT artifact might be and do, falling outside established IoT tropes (E.g. Amazon Echo, Google Nest, LG's Alexa powered fridge). These will inform participatory co-design activities and the production of a series of new IoT devices that participants will live with over several months. The project will investigate four scales of relationship between individual people, the internet and things: Person + Body, Person + Home, Person + Neighbourhood, Person + Town/Rural region. These contexts of scale will enable the investigation of meaningful and sustainable forms of relationship between an individual and their wider environment at a number of levels, ultimately providing a resource of radical new exemplars of IoT and a roadmap to a healthier digital future (i.e. recommendations for new approaches to, and conceptualisations of IoT).

该项目的目的是探索我们如何使用手工艺的精神和实践来定义和建立人们之间的健康关系，并以人文知识的知识为知识所带来的精神和实践，并增强了技术知识和利用公民的参与/协作。互联网是社会上的强大力量。自从全球网络成立以来，互联网一直是一个奇迹，创造力和机会的地方。然而，目前处于一个非常有问题的立场：假新闻，权力集中，对精选技术巨头的主要控制，虚假信息，社交媒体的武器化，民主进程的破坏，对公民的大规模操纵，网络犯罪的大规模操纵以及个人数据的滥用被国际认可为重大关注的领域。随着越来越多的日常对象成为互联网连接，成为物联网（IoT）的一部分，这些信任，隐私，安全和滥用数据的问题将变得更加紧迫，因为对Alexa等智能扬声器的窃听功能的焦虑表明。此外，它得到了广泛认可，甚至促进了工业设计，导致了数字技术公司能够显着扩大其产品覆盖范围的方式（苹果是最明显的例子）。然而，这导致了一种完全不可持续的，同质的，全球的文化，该文化为期两年，生命周期设备和互联网正在被少数人和中国公司“殖民”。这些问题不是可以专门解决技术创新和工具解决方案的问题。他们需要考虑建立互联网业务的基本精神和结构的社会和道德含义和后果（无论是否旨在）的举措。我们将与Mozilla合作，并受其互联网健康报告的启发，我们挑战了现有的“不健康”方法正在概念化和实施物联网（即将经济业务模型限制在用户代理上，缺乏开放性，透明度和易读性），并为IOT开发提供了另一种更健康的“健康”轨迹。虽然设计通常渴望普遍存在和标准化，但工艺在特殊性和宽松性上蓬勃发展，这种特异性和定义性通常植根于本地化，并体现了真实性，出处和护理的价值。通过在本地工作，在考虑和生产方面，我们试图为概念化和创造物联网形式的新观点和方法，体现我们的工艺精神。因此，我们将创建令人信服的特定于上下文，有意义和可信赖的形式的物联网的引人入胜的例子，以探索和理解我们可以改变整个行业的当前轨迹的方式。基于英格兰东北部，该项目将与当地团体，企业，组织和个人以及与设计，工艺和人类的专家一起批准现有的IoT提供的IOT提供的专家。以手工艺为中心的探索将导致对物联网可能和做的事情的重新构想，落在建立的物联网上方（例如，亚马逊回声，Google Nest，LG的Alexa Powered Fridge）。这些将为参与性的共同设计活动提供信息，并生产一系列新的物联网设备，参与者将与几个月的时间一起生活。该项目将调查个人，互联网和事物之间的四个量表：个人 +身体，人 +家庭，人 +社区，人 +城镇/农村地区。这些规模的环境将使个人与其更广泛的环境之间的有意义和可持续形式的关系在许多层面上进行调查，最终为物联网的根本新示例提供了一种基于更健康的数字未来的路线图（即有关新方法的建议，以及IoT的新方法和IOT概念化方法）。

项目成果

Entangled Threads: Exploring the value and significance of bringing a craft ethos to debates around the IoT/connected things.

纠缠的线索：探索将工艺精神带入围绕物联网/互联事物的辩论的价值和意义。

• DOI: 10.1145/3623509.3634746
• 发表时间: 2024
• 作者: Wallace J

hiCraft Workbook 1

手工作业手册 1

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Marshall J