Interaction design of an application for IoT data of workplaces

Abstract

This Master Thesis is focused on a web platform developed to collect and display information about IoT devices installed in workplaces. The main purpose of the work was to analyse, redesign and implement the user interface of the system by applying a human-centred design methodology. The context of the project has been established by the company Archibus Solution Center Spain, S.A, which aims at analysing the workplace performance and at proposing solutions for space optimization. The IoT platform, called IoT-Hub was developed for this Master Thesis to offer specialized users a helping tool to visualize and manage the data gathered by the IoT devices. By following a human-centred design process, the project started with performing user research in the form of interviews to evaluate the initial IoTHub application and to define the required functionalities from the users’ perspectives. Afterwards, conclusions from the user research were used in the ideation process that led to the creation of the first prototypes. Following this, iterative development stages and usability tests were performed to improve the usability and the user experience of the application. The result of this Master Thesis consists of a functional, accessible, and redesigned web application, called IoT-Hub that follows the same concept as the initial platform, but was developed by applying a human-centred design methodology.