Abstract
Digital Commons have been widely studied in HCI and co-design literature as an alternative to technologies produced by capitalistic corporations. In this paper, we present an action-research process that facilitates the use of digital commons among a group of participants. The process core aspect is understanding our participants' interests and values to present multiple off-the-shelf tools fitting their needs. In doing so, we leveraged on Artifact Ecologies, using them as an action-research tool. The process is articulated in three main phases: 1) we engaged participants in a reflection on their Artifact Ecologies, connecting the artifacts in use to their values; 2) we used these results to selected valuable digital commons; 3) we presented these tools to the group, connecting them to participants' ecologies. At the end of the process, we performed a collective interview to evaluate the process alongside assessing the adoption of the proposed technologies. Based on our findings, we developed five tactics to foster digital commoning.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | DIS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Nowhere and Everywhere |
Publisher | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 1710-1725 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450384766 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Jun 2021 |
Event | 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Nowhere and Everywhere, DIS 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 28 Jun 2021 → 2 Jul 2021 |
Conference
Conference | 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Nowhere and Everywhere, DIS 2021 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Virtual, Online |
Period | 28/06/21 → 2/07/21 |
Keywords
- Action Research
- Artifact Ecology
- Critical Computing
- Digital Commons
- FLOSS
- Sustainable Interaction Design