  This study attempts to understand the use of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) in
practice to obtain insights to develop design interventions that bring the CPGs
into the Internet of Things. Our ultimate aim is to equip CPGs with a layer of
smartness so that CPGs could collect information about their use and provide
extra services and functionalities. With a practice perspective we developed an
assemblage of methods to analyze and represent how people use CPGs. We chose
cooking as our practice case and use an auto-ethnographic data sample to
demonstrate the application of our methods. Despite the early stage of our
study, our methods provide ways to get an understanding of how CPGs are used in
practice and an opening to establish opportunities for design interventions.
