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Building a Social Machine: co-designing a TimeBank for inclusive research

Building a Social Machine: co-designing a TimeBank for inclusive research
Building a Social Machine: co-designing a TimeBank for inclusive research
This paper discusses the construction of a Social Machine, a socio-technical system in which people achieve new, creative goals enabled by automated processes that are handled by technology. Specifically, the Social Machine is an online TimeBank, a time-based way for people to give and receive services; it is designed for use in the context of inclusive research (initially) with people with learning disabilities.

We describe the use of physical and digital (online) focus groups to gather inputs to drive the construction of the TimeBank, and the processes by which we analysed the data to inform the design of the TimeBank. Our goal is to create an online community with a sense of connectedness, and we discuss this work through that lens, presenting insights gained towards: building the TimeBank itself; methodological implications of related but separate physical and digital focus groups; and building Social Machines.
social machines, inclusive research, timebanking
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Hooper, Clare J.
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Parsons, Sarah
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Hooper, Clare J., Nind, Melanie, Parsons, Sarah, Power, Andrew and Collis, Anne (2015) Building a Social Machine: co-designing a TimeBank for inclusive research. ACM Web Science 2015 (WebSci '15), , Oxford, United Kingdom. 28 Jun - 01 Jul 2015. 9 pp . (doi:10.1145/2786451.2786472).

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This paper discusses the construction of a Social Machine, a socio-technical system in which people achieve new, creative goals enabled by automated processes that are handled by technology. Specifically, the Social Machine is an online TimeBank, a time-based way for people to give and receive services; it is designed for use in the context of inclusive research (initially) with people with learning disabilities.

We describe the use of physical and digital (online) focus groups to gather inputs to drive the construction of the TimeBank, and the processes by which we analysed the data to inform the design of the TimeBank. Our goal is to create an online community with a sense of connectedness, and we discuss this work through that lens, presenting insights gained towards: building the TimeBank itself; methodological implications of related but separate physical and digital focus groups; and building Social Machines.

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Published date: June 2015
Additional Information: Funded by UK IT Association: TRIFoRM Project
Venue - Dates: ACM Web Science 2015 (WebSci '15), , Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015-06-28 - 2015-07-01
Keywords: social machines, inclusive research, timebanking
Organisations: IT Innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 379508
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/379508
ISBN: 9781450336727
PURE UUID: a3b254f3-cdfc-42f0-9881-efb1527316da
ORCID for Melanie Nind: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4070-7513
ORCID for Sarah Parsons: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-4745
ORCID for Andrew Power: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3887-1050

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Date deposited: 22 Jul 2015 14:01
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Clare J. Hooper
Author: Melanie Nind ORCID iD
Author: Sarah Parsons ORCID iD
Author: Andrew Power ORCID iD
Author: Anne Collis

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