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Publication Detail
The Haggle-O-Tron: design intervention in secondhand retail
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Publication Type:Conference
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Authors:Speed C, Hartswood M, Laurier E, Maghee S, de Jode ML, Hudson-Smith A
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Publisher:ACM
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Publication date:21/06/2014
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Place of publication:New York, USA
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Pagination:137, 140
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Published proceedings:Proceedings of the 2014 companion publication on Designing interactive systems (DIS Companion '14)
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Name of conference:DIS 2014
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Conference place:Vancouver, Canada
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Conference start date:21/06/2014
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Conference finish date:25/07/2014
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Keywords:Second hand retai, economic transactions, reflective design, ludic design
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Abstract
Secondhand retail in the UK charity sector plays a
number of important social and economic roles: charity
shops are community focal points; money is generated
for good causes; and goods are re-circulated that might
otherwise be discarded as
abject and unwanted.
However, like much of the UK high street, the
prosperity of charity shops is under significant threat
from the rise of internet shopping. Access to online
markets via smart phones equips customers to check
prices for secondhand items, some customers then
deploy information, usually from eBay, to haggle with
shop staff. This demo presents the
Haggle-o-Tron
as a
design intervention into an Oxfam secondhand shop
that playfully subverts bo
th normative and emerging
secondhand retail valuatio
n practices by revealing
secondhand goods’ financial, moral, social and aesthetic
properties. This demonstration proposal is for a
demonstration that will present both the design solution
and documentation of its role within the ethnographic
study.
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