Computational Alternatives Vignettes for Place- and Activity-Centered Digital Services for Public Libraries

TY - GEN

T1 - Computational Alternatives Vignettes for Place- and Activity-Centered Digital Services for Public Libraries

AU - Yoo, Daisy

AU - Tabard, Aurélien

AU - Ducros, Alix

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

AU - Klokmose, Clemens Nylandsted

AU - Eriksson, Eva

AU - Serholt, Sofia

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - 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 \textit{computational alternatives vignettes} -- grounded stories that encapsulate sociotechnical implications of technology, pointing to plausible alternative futures.

AB - 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 \textit{computational alternatives vignettes} -- grounded stories that encapsulate sociotechnical implications of technology, pointing to plausible alternative futures.

KW - computational alternatives

KW - knowledge sharing

KW - library events

KW - place-centric

KW - public libraries

KW - third places

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091295839&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3313831.3376597

DO - 10.1145/3313831.3376597

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85091295839

BT - CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

T2 - CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Y2 - 25 April 2020 through 30 April 2020

ER -