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Designing a Mobile Service as a Facilitator for Capturing Local Trade Data

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Adrian Gradinar,

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AcademicMindTrek '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

Pages 172 - 175

https://doi.org/10.1145/2523429.2523443

Published: 01 October 2013 Publication History

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In this paper we will highlight the potential for creating alternative economic models based on ethical trading to encourage communities to embrace the benefits of connecting, sharing and trading more locally. In particular the research presented considers whether mobile and ubiquitous computing can be used to effectively to support such an initiative as an alternative to local currency schemes. The current prototype known as BARTER encourages transparency in the dissemination of local trade information to all members of the community, including the customers, rather than adopting current approaches whereby the trader records such information without revealing anything to the customers. This transparency also allows us to illustrate to customers that the more money is spent locally the healthier the local economy becomes bringing benefits to all.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2676467.2676498
Knowles BLochrie MCoulton PWhittle JJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)BARTERCHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2559206.2581306(1933-1938)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2559206.2581306

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Designing a Mobile Service as a Facilitator for Capturing Local Trade Data
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Lochrie MWhittle JKnowles BHuck JCoulton PHallam MLugmayr A(2014)Revealing flows in the local economy through visualisationsProceedings of the 18th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Media Business, Management, Content & Services10.1145/2676467.2676498(148-151)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2676467.2676498
Knowles BLochrie MCoulton PWhittle JJones MPalanque PSchmidt AGrossman T(2014)BARTERCHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2559206.2581306(1933-1938)Online publication date: 26-Apr-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2559206.2581306

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