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Co-production Scenarios for Mobile Time Banking

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Time banking facilitates generalized reciprocity among neighbors by rewarding contributions in proportion to the time entailed in contributing. Contributions can be person-to-person services, such as driving another person to an appointment. They can also be co-productions, in which the provider and recipient jointly enact a service, such as giving/receiving a guitar lesson. Co-production is an important category of time banking interaction; it has been identified as a key to strengthening the core economy of home, family, neighborhood and community, and is becoming integrated into government social service schemes. As part of a requirements analysis for mobile timing banking infrastructures, we identified and analyzed co-production scenarios. Our objective is to contribute to the social movements of co-production of social services and of time banking through designing and developing a socio-technical infrastructure that mutually leverages both to build up the core economy and to enable societal-scale time banking.

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  1. Center for Human-Computer Interaction/College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16803, USA

    John M. Carroll

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  1. IT University of Copenhagen, 2300, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Yvonne Dittrich

  2. Oregon State University, 97331-5501, Corvallis, OR, USA

    Margaret Burnett

  3. InterMedia, University of Oslo, Blindern, 0318, Oslo, Norway

    Anders Mørch

  4. University of California, 92697-3440, Irvine, CA, USA

    David Redmiles

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Carroll, J.M. (2013). Co-production Scenarios for Mobile Time Banking. In: Dittrich, Y., Burnett, M., Mørch, A., Redmiles, D. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7897. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_11

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