Designing alternative systems for local communities

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

Arts, Media and Engineering, School of (AME)

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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 (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	2333-2336
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657
State	Published - Apr 18 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	18

Other

Other	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	4/18/15 → 4/23/15

Keywords

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

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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Vlachokyriakos, V., Comber, R., Crivellaro, C., Taylor, N., Kuznetsov, A., Kavanaugh, A., Le Dantec, C. A., & Kim, B. J. (2015). Designing alternative systems for local communities. In CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 2333-2336). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 18). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657

Designing alternative systems for local communities. / Vlachokyriakos, Vasilis; Comber, Rob; Crivellaro, Clara et al.
CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 2333-2336 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 18).

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

Vlachokyriakos, V, Comber, R, Crivellaro, C, Taylor, N, Kuznetsov, A, Kavanaugh, A, Le Dantec, CA & Kim, BJ 2015, Designing alternative systems for local communities. in CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. 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, 4/18/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657

Vlachokyriakos V, Comber R, Crivellaro C, Taylor N, Kuznetsov A, Kavanaugh A et al. Designing alternative systems for local communities. In CHI 2015 - Extended Abstracts Publication of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 2333-2336. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2702613.2702657

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