Abstract
In the wake of the 2008 economic collapse, there is renewed interest in strategies for ensuring the future economic success of nations in a globalized marketplace. One of the main ideas being championed by governments is to promote growth by encouraging local spending, although it is not clear how to motivate this behavioral shift. Local currency initiatives are increasingly popular, though due to certain practicalities are rarely successful in fostering long term and widespread change in spending behaviors. We report on the development of a persuasive system (BARTER) that leverages mobile and ubiquitous technology to overcome some of the limitations of local currencies, while also providing users with the insight needed to determine for themselves how local spending may benefit their community.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2014 - One of a CHind |
Subtitle of host publication | Extended Abstracts - Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014 - The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Editors | Albrecht Schmidt, Tovi Grossman |
Place of Publication | New York NY USA |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Pages | 1933-1938 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450324748 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 - Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014 Conference number: 32nd https://chi2014.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2556288 (Proceedings) |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014 |
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Abbreviated title | CHI 2014 |
Country/Territory | Canada |
City | Toronto |
Period | 26/04/14 → 1/05/14 |
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Keywords
- Data collection
- Data visualisation
- Persuasion
- Persuasive games