Nasreddine Bouhaï is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences and researcher at the Laboratoire Paragraphe, Paris 8 University, France.Imad Saleh is Professor in Information and Communication Sciences and researcher at the Laboratoire Paragraphe, Paris 8 University, France.

• Introduction xiChapter 1 The IoT: Intrusive or Indispensable Objects? 1Nasreddine BOUHAÏ1.1 Introduction 11.2 The age of miniaturization and technological progress 21.3 The history of a digital ecosystem 31.4 Internet of Things, which definition? 51.5 The security of connected objects: the risks and the challenges 51.6 Protocols, standards and compatibility: toward a technological convergence 61.6.1 The origins of some norms and standards 71.7 Humanity, intelligence and technologies 91.7.1 Crowdfunding as an aid to innovation 91.7.2 Participatory environmental sensors and citizens 101.7.3 When digital art goes into connected mode 121.7.4 Home automation for a connected and communicating habitat 131.7.5 Connected objects, a step toward the enhanced human 151.8 Conclusion 171.9 Bibliography 18Chapter 2 The Ecosystem of the Internet of Things 21Ioan ROXIN and Aymeric BOUCHEREAU2.1 Introduction 212.2 Context, convergences and definition 222.2.1 The Internet Toaster or the first connected object in history 222.2.2 From the Internet of computers… 232.2.3 … to the Internet of objects 382.3 Conclusion 472.4 Bibliography 48Chapter 3 Introduction to the Technologies of the Ecosystem of the Internet of Things 51Ioan ROXIN and Aymeric BOUCHEREAU3.1 Architectures recommended by the Internet Architecture Board 523.1.1 Communication between objects 523.1.2 Communication from objects to the Cloud 533.1.3 Communication from objects to a gateway 543.1.4 From objects to back-end data sharing 553.2 Three-tier architecture 563.2.1 Layered architecture 573.3 Steps and technologies in the ecosystem of the IoT 593.3.1 Identifying 623.3.2 Capturing 643.3.3 Connecting 653.3.4 Integrating 683.3.5 Networking 793.4 Opportunities and threats in the IoT ecosystem 823.4.1 Opportunities 823.4.2 Threats 873.5 Conclusion 903.6 Bibliography 91Chapter 4 Toward a Methodology of IoT-a: Embedded Agents for the Internet of Things 97Valérie RENAULT and Florent CARLIER4.1 Introduction 974.2 Multi-agent simulations, ambient intelligence and the Internet of Things 984.3 Triskell3S: an architecture of embedded agent-oriented inter-actions 1024.4 Transposition of the formalization of agent-oriented interaction to connected objects 1034.5 Formalization 1064.6 Experimentation and perspectives 1104.7 Bibliography 112Chapter 5 The Visualization of Information of the Internet of Things 117Adilson Luiz PINTO, Audilio GONZALES-AGUILAR, Moisés LIMA DUTRA, Alexandre RIBAS SEMELER, Marta DENISCZWICZ and Carole CLOSEL5.1 Introduction 1175.2 Internet of Things 1205.3 InfoVis and DataVis in the Internet of Things 1235.3.1 Visual analytics in the context of the Internet of Things 1255.4 Analytical visualization in the context of the Internet of Things 1305.5 Conclusion: the relevance of the use of visualization in the Internet of Things 1345.6 Bibliography 135Chapter 6 The Quantified Self and Mobile Health Applications: From Information and Communication Sciences to Social Innovation by Design 139Marie-Julie CATOIR-BRISSON6.1 Introduction 1396.2 The evolution of interfaces and connected objects toward anthropotechnics 1416.2.1 From e-health to the “Quantified Self” 1416.2.2 Anthropotechnics and the information ecosystem of Chris Dancy 1436.2.3 Connected objects as the heirs of ubiquitous computing 1456.3 Factitive dimension and value system at the heart of Chris Dancy’s relationship with his information technology 1466.3.1 The progressive development of the figure of the enhanced human in socio-digital networks 1466.3.2 Information design and data-visualization: the case of Fitbit and Existence 1476.3.3 Animism and anthropomorphism: a particular relationship to connected objects 1486.4 Critical perspective and avenues for reflection for reconsidering the use of connected objects and mobile applications in the field of health 1536.4.1 Ethical and social issues related to data governance 1536.4.2 The doctor-patient relationship transformed by connected objects and mobile health applications 1566.4.3 The necessity of considering the point of view of doctors and healthcare professionals 1586.4.4 Envisaging other paths for m-health technologies based on the anthropology of communication and social innovation by design 1606.5 Conclusion 1646.6 Bibliography 165Chapter 7 Tweets from Fukushima: Connected Sensors and Social Media for Dissemination after a Nuclear Accident 169Antonin SEGAULT, Frederico TAJARIOL and Ioan ROXIN7.1 Introduction 1697.2 The IoT: a shift in the development of digital services 1707.3 Social media and the dissemination of information during a catastrophe 1727.4 Context of the study 1747.5 Goals of our study 1777.6 Methodology 1777.7 Results 1787.7.1 Comprehensive overview 1797.7.2 Popularity of bots 1797.7.3 Completeness of the shared measurements 1807.7.4 Source of the measurements shared 1817.8 Discussions 1827.9 Conclusions 1837.10 Acknowledgements 1847.11 Bibliography 184Chapter 8 Connected Objects: Transparency Back in Play 189Florent DI BARTOLO8.1 Introduction 1898.2 Sensitive objects 1908.3 The myth of transparency 1958.4 Transparency of interfaces and opacity of processes 2008.5 Conclusion 2078.6 Bibliography 208Chapter 9 Status of the Body within the Internet of Things: Revolution or Evolution? 211Evelyne LOMBARDO and Christophe GUION9.1 Introduction 2119.2 Presence and absence of the body in the field of sports and e-health 2129.3 The traceability of the body or the integration of data by a digital coach 2129.4 The IoT creates a flow of information around the body: a present, readable and traceable cluster 2139.5 The body in interaction: sharing Clouds to inform the informational environment 2159.6 Clouds, persistence and trust: a mapped body without the right to be forgotten 2169.7 The body, an object communicating between hyper-control and non-control 2179.8 Conclusion 2189.9 Bibliography 219List of Authors 221Index 223