TY - GEN
T1 - Enhancing the 'Second-Hand' retail experience with digital object memories
AU - De Jode, Martin
AU - Barthel, Ralph
AU - Rogers, Jon
AU - Karpovich, Angelina
AU - Hudson-Smith, Andrew
AU - Quigley, Michael
AU - Speed, Chris
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - For a long time, the second-hand retail market was the preserve of the charity shop. However, the advent of services like eBay has massively increased its prominence. In this paper we describe a novel Internet of Things-based approach to enhancing the second-hand retail experience by augmenting items with their provenance. After a discussion of the underlying technology, we shall describe its deployment in two related case studies conducted in collaboration with Oxfam charity retail outlets in which we tagged donated items with RFID and QR codes, allowing shoppers to hear the story behind the donated items. Finally, we discuss the impact of the deployments and their implications for the second-hand retail sector.
AB - For a long time, the second-hand retail market was the preserve of the charity shop. However, the advent of services like eBay has massively increased its prominence. In this paper we describe a novel Internet of Things-based approach to enhancing the second-hand retail experience by augmenting items with their provenance. After a discussion of the underlying technology, we shall describe its deployment in two related case studies conducted in collaboration with Oxfam charity retail outlets in which we tagged donated items with RFID and QR codes, allowing shoppers to hear the story behind the donated items. Finally, we discuss the impact of the deployments and their implications for the second-hand retail sector.
KW - Digital object memory
KW - Internet of things
KW - RFID
KW - Second- hand ret
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867472201&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2370216.2370284
DO - 10.1145/2370216.2370284
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867472201
SN - 9781450312240
T3 - UbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
SP - 451
EP - 460
BT - UbiComp'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
T2 - 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2012
Y2 - 5 September 2012 through 8 September 2012
ER -