Paper Info
Title
Computational Alternatives Vignettes for Place- and Activity-Centered Digital Services in Public Libraries
Abstract
We investigate how to design community technologies for public events. We do so with a focus on technologies that give rise to new forms of participation and knowledge co-production in public libraries. Specifically, we deployed a digital service at a major public library during its four-week creative workshop series. The system offered an alternative way for people to work together as a community, to go beyond achieving individual goals, and to contribute to the achievement of public goals (e.g., building community bookshelves). We report on how the system has reconfigured physical spaces and afforded new social practices in the library. We propose Computational Alternatives as a fruitful approach for gaining situated, nuanced insights into a technology's possible adoption. We offer key insights in the form of computational alternatives vignettes -- grounded stories that encapsulate sociotechnical implications of technology, pointing to plausible alternative futures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3313831.3376597
CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Honolulu HI USA April, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6708-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daisy Yoo112210.77
Aurelien Tabard2667.10
Alix Ducros321.41
Peter Dalsgaard448345.63
Clemens Nylandsted Klokmose524524.05
Eva Eriksson622031.09
Sofia Serholt7517.23