Customizing hybrid products

We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which were designed to be customizable. We reveal how ov...

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Main Authors: Benford, Steve, Koleva, Boriana, Preston, William, Angus, Alice, Thorn, Emily-Clare, Glover, Kevin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50343/
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author Benford, Steve
Koleva, Boriana
Preston, William
Angus, Alice
Thorn, Emily-Clare
Glover, Kevin
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Koleva, Boriana
Preston, William
Angus, Alice
Thorn, Emily-Clare
Glover, Kevin
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description We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which were designed to be customizable. We reveal how over two hundred active users adapted its physical and digital aspects in various ways, some anticipated and familiar, but others surprising. This leads us to contribute concepts to help understand and design for hybrid customization – the idea of broad customization spanning physical and digital; end-to-end customization by different stakeholders along the value chain for a product; and the combination of these into customization maps.
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spelling nottingham-503432020-05-08T09:30:10Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50343/ Customizing hybrid products Benford, Steve Koleva, Boriana Preston, William Angus, Alice Thorn, Emily-Clare Glover, Kevin We explore how the convergence of the digital and physical into hybrid products leads to new possibilities for customization. We report on a technology probe, a hybrid advent calendar with both paper form and digital layers of content, both of which were designed to be customizable. We reveal how over two hundred active users adapted its physical and digital aspects in various ways, some anticipated and familiar, but others surprising. This leads us to contribute concepts to help understand and design for hybrid customization – the idea of broad customization spanning physical and digital; end-to-end customization by different stakeholders along the value chain for a product; and the combination of these into customization maps. 2018-01-22 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50343/1/CustomizingHybridProductsCHI.pdf Benford, Steve, Koleva, Boriana, Preston, William, Angus, Alice, Thorn, Emily-Clare and Glover, Kevin (2018) Customizing hybrid products. In: CHI 2018, 21-26 April 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada. (In Press) Personalisation Customisation Hybrid products Augmented Reality Internet of Things Gifting
spellingShingle Personalisation
Customisation
Hybrid products
Augmented Reality
Internet of Things
Gifting
Benford, Steve
Koleva, Boriana
Preston, William
Angus, Alice
Thorn, Emily-Clare
Glover, Kevin
Customizing hybrid products
title Customizing hybrid products
title_full Customizing hybrid products
title_fullStr Customizing hybrid products
title_full_unstemmed Customizing hybrid products
title_short Customizing hybrid products
title_sort customizing hybrid products
topic Personalisation
Customisation
Hybrid products
Augmented Reality
Internet of Things
Gifting
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50343/