GeoCoin: Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts

Bettina Nissen; Larissa Pschetz; Dave Murray-Rust; Hadi Mehrpouya; Shaune Oosthuizen; Christopher Speed

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173737

GeoCoin: Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts

Bettina Nissen, Larissa Pschetz, Dave Murray-Rust, Hadi Mehrpouya, Shaune Oosthuizen, Christopher Speed

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Design and HCI researchers are increasingly working with complex digital infrastructures, such as cryptocurrencies, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. These technologies will have a profound impact on digital systems and their audiences. However, given their emergent nature and technical complexity, involving non-specialists in the design of applications that employ these technologies is challenging. In this paper, we discuss these challenges and present GeoCoin, a location-based platform for embodied learning and speculative ideating with smart contracts. In collaborative workshops with GeoCoin, participants engaged with location-based smart contracts, using the platform to explore digital `debit' and `credit' zones in the city. These exercises led to the design of diverse distributed-ledger applications, for time-limited financial unions, participatory budgeting, and humanitarian aid. These results contribute to the HCI community by demonstrating how an experiential prototype can support understanding of the complexities behind new digital infrastructures and facilitate participant engagement in ideation and design processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2018 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-10
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450356206
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173737
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2018

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Bettina Nissen
- Edinburgh College of Art - Lecturer in Interaction Design
- Design Informatics
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Nissen, B., Pschetz, L., Murray-Rust, D., Mehrpouya, H., Oosthuizen, S., & Speed, C. (2018). GeoCoin: Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts. In CHI 2018 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada (pp. 1-10). [163] Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173737

Nissen, Bettina ; Pschetz, Larissa ; Murray-Rust, Dave ; Mehrpouya, Hadi ; Oosthuizen, Shaune ; Speed, Christopher. / GeoCoin : Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts. CHI 2018 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada. New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. pp. 1-10

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Nissen B , Pschetz L , Murray-Rust D, Mehrpouya H, Oosthuizen S, Speed C. GeoCoin: Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts. In CHI 2018 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 21-26, 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2018. p. 1-10. 163 https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173737

GeoCoin: Supporting ideation and collaborative design with smart contracts

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