Open Prototyping methodology
The Open Prototyping methodology provides a framework to analyse how combining art and ICT can stimulate innovation and demand for IoT and Smart City data and services, and highlight potential roadblocks to acceptance before they are encountered.
Research has assessed the implementation of the Open Prototyping framework in IoT pilots in the UK, Netherlands and Singapore. Findings suggest two key contributions of combining Art and ICT through Open Prototyping are to:
1. Stimulate innovation and demand for IoT data and services in ICT companies, and
2. Enable consumers and industry users to question what is trusted, acceptable and desirable (Ibid.).
Evaluation Framework of the methodology for integrating ICT and Art for LSPs
The Open Prototyping methodology highlights actionable evaluation to iterate and improve the methodology. Additionally, evaluation material aimed at advocacy should be collected to communicate the results of ART-ICT co-creation and to ensure the continuity of projects in this domain.
The research further identified benefits to the IoT pilots and the artists themselves corresponding to different stages and dimensions of the activity, as detailed in Table 2:
