Presenting the IoT Sandbox: a catalyser of insights

Designing for systems, that is, complex contexts with diverse users, needs and expectations can be a challenging task if there are few or limited ways to explore, experiment, and embed design concepts early in the process. The IoT Sandbox [1] addresses this problem through a physicalization of the to be designed for context at different scales. It allows for physical, tangible and also data access to a simulated environment that support design tasks in-situ. When designing with the IoT Sandbox, we can observe how design teams deal with limitations and, together, explore how emergent behaviors can be emphasized, grown and essentially designed.