BARTER: promoting local spending behavior

Bran Knowles; Jon Whittle; Mark Lochrie; Paul Coulton

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581306

BARTER: promoting local spending behavior

Bran Knowles, Jon Whittle, Mark Lochrie, Paul Coulton

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581306
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
Abbreviated title	CHI 2014
Country	Canada
City	Toronto
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14
Internet address	https://chi2014.acm.org/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2556288 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Data collection
Data visualisation
Persuasion
Persuasive games

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Knowles, B., Whittle, J., Lochrie, M., & Coulton, P. (2014). BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. In A. Schmidt, & T. Grossman (Eds.), CHI 2014 - One of a CHind: Extended Abstracts - Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014 - The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1933-1938). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581306

Knowles, Bran ; Whittle, Jon ; Lochrie, Mark ; Coulton, Paul. / BARTER : promoting local spending behavior. CHI 2014 - One of a CHind: Extended Abstracts - Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014 - The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Albrecht Schmidt ; Tovi Grossman. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. pp. 1933-1938

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Knowles, B, Whittle, J, Lochrie, M & Coulton, P 2014, BARTER: promoting local spending behavior. in A Schmidt & T Grossman (eds), CHI 2014 - One of a CHind: Extended Abstracts - Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014 - The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA , pp. 1933-1938, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014, Toronto, Canada, 26/04/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581306

BARTER : promoting local spending behavior. / Knowles, Bran; Whittle, Jon; Lochrie, Mark; Coulton, Paul.

CHI 2014 - One of a CHind: Extended Abstracts - Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014 - The 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Tovi Grossman. New York NY USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 1933-1938.

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