Next Smart Design: Inclusion, Emotions, Interaction in the Concept of Baby Soothing, Caring and Monitoring Smart Solutions

This paper aims to trace back the didactic experience applied while developing the concepts of IOT baby/parents-custom solutions, during a Final Design Lab at the Design School of Politecnico di Milano. Three projects, respectively dealing with baby tubs, monitoring systems and electrosmog shielding, will be analyzed in relation to the applied methodologies, the emotional involvement and the questioning generated. If Smart Technologies get increasingly central in our lives, how far can we go even in a context, such as that of baby soothing, caring, and monitoring solutions? How are IOT environments likely to impact on parental life? The outcomes will be of help to observe how design students responded once challenged with the inclusion of smart solutions to baby design products, and to detect the importance of implementing Intelligent Systems while encouraging the flow of emotions, in a new framework of Everyday Aesthetics.