Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities

Vasillis 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

Vasillis 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	CHI EA '15
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Bo Begole
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2333-2336
Number of pages	4
Volume	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
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

bottom-up
activism
democracy
participation
citizen science
DIY
politics and HCI

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Vlachokyriakos, V., Comber, R., Crivellaro, C., Taylor, N., Kuznetsov, S., Kavanaugh, A., Le Dantec, C. A., & Kim, B. J. (2015). Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities. In B. Begole (Ed.), CHI EA '15 : Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vol. 18, pp. 2333-2336). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657

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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 B Begole (ed.), CHI EA '15 : Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. vol. 18, ACM, New York, 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

Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities. / Vlachokyriakos, Vasillis; Comber, Rob; Crivellaro, Clara et al.
CHI EA '15 : Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Bo Begole. Vol. 18 New York: ACM, 2015. p. 2333-2336.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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