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Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities

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Vasillis Vlachokyriakos,

Clara Crivellaro,

Stacey Kuznetsov,

Andrea Kavanaugh,

Christopher A. Le Dantec,

B. Joon KimAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2333 - 2336

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702657

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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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.

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Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities
1. Human-centered computing

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

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ISBN:9781450331463

DOI:10.1145/2702613

General Chairs:
Bo Begole
Huawei, USA
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Yonsei University, Korea
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Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, Korea

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Mukhtar MSingh AArnesen ESrivastava S(2021)Conceptualizing Hyperlocal Information Systems for Developing CountriesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34795095:CSCW2(1-26)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
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Knowles BBates OHåkansson MMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)This Changes Sustainable HCIProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174045(1-12)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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