TY - GEN
T1 - Unequal time for unequal value
T2 - 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
AU - Shih, Patrick C.
AU - Bellotti, Victoria
AU - Han, Kyungsik
AU - Carroll, John M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/4/18
Y1 - 2015/4/18
N2 - Timebanking is a service-based community currency, built on the principle that everyone's time is valued equally. It has potential for community building and reenergizing neighborhoods, but it faces several adoption challenges. We report on the largest investigation of timebanking practices to date by analyzing a combination of service exchange records from the three largest hOurworld timebanks with over 3,500 members with 33,000 completed service exchanges, and a survey of 446 members of over 120 hOurworld timebanks. Our findings suggest that the ideal of 'equal time, equal value' that is at the foundation of timebanking is a source of tension between members with instrumental versus idealistic and altruistic motivations. We suggest that future peer-to-peer systems must incorporate different rewards and incentives in order to accommodate users with different motivations.
AB - Timebanking is a service-based community currency, built on the principle that everyone's time is valued equally. It has potential for community building and reenergizing neighborhoods, but it faces several adoption challenges. We report on the largest investigation of timebanking practices to date by analyzing a combination of service exchange records from the three largest hOurworld timebanks with over 3,500 members with 33,000 completed service exchanges, and a survey of 446 members of over 120 hOurworld timebanks. Our findings suggest that the ideal of 'equal time, equal value' that is at the foundation of timebanking is a source of tension between members with instrumental versus idealistic and altruistic motivations. We suggest that future peer-to-peer systems must incorporate different rewards and incentives in order to accommodate users with different motivations.
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U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702560
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702560
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951181686
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1075
EP - 1084
BT - CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 18 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -