Development of a co-creation environment for an open IoT platform

Abstract

Today, a “co-creation” culture for creating shared values plays an important role in our society. According to this cultural trend, co-creation is needed in developing smart objects. However, existing IoT (Internet of Things) platforms do not support a co-creation environment for users. Thus, this research aims to develop a co-creation environment that can allow users to create with others by sharing different ideas in the process of developing and testing smart objects. In this paper, we report our experience in the development of a co-creation environment for an open IoT platform. This paper contributes to the provision of developmental approaches to developers and researchers who develop IoT platforms that can support co-creation environments. © 2015 SERSC.