Designing alternative systems for local communities

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos; Rob Comber; Clara Crivellaro; Nick Taylor; Stacey Kuznetsov; Andrea Kavanaugh; Christopher A. Le Dantec; B. Joon Kim

doi:10.1145/2702613.2702657

Designing alternative systems for local communities

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Clara Crivellaro, Nick Taylor, Stacey Kuznetsov, Andrea Kavanaugh, Christopher A. Le Dantec, B. Joon Kim

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Abstract

Alternative systems ranging from self-organized skill sharing to alternative micro-economies have been critical channels of community engagement and bonding. Technology is increasingly playing a role in the way people connect to these services at the (hyper)local level. While there has been considerable research on designing technology to support conventional, established systems of community organization and governance; mobile and ubiquitous technologies offer strong potential for alternative systems to be established in the local level. Do It Yourself (DIY) and maker movements are enabling grassroots activist groups to develop their own technologies or to hack existing tools to support bottom-up systems of self-organization, democracy and commerce. Based on these trends and the recent worldwide economic, political and societal crisis, this workshop will bring together researchers, practitioners and activists to re-envision how HCI tools can support alternative systems of local civic engagement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2333-2336
Number of pages	4
Volume	18
ISBN (Print)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15

Keywords

Activism
Bottom-up
Citizen science
Democracy
DIY
Participation
Politics and HCI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Vlachokyriakos, V, Comber, R, Crivellaro, C, Taylor, N, Kuznetsov, S, Kavanaugh, A, Le Dantec, CA & Kim, BJ 2015, Designing alternative systems for local communities. in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. vol. 18, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2333-2336, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657

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