Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home
Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home
Budgeting is an important means of controlling ones finances and reducing debt. This paper outlines our work towards designing more user centred technology for individual and household budgeting. Based on an ethnographically informed study with 15 participants, we highlight a misalignment between people's actual budgeting practices and those supported by off-the-shelf budgeting aids. In addressing this misalignment we outline three tenets that may be incorporated into future work in this area. These include (1) catering for the different phases of engagement with technology; (2) catering for the practices of hiding and limiting access to money, and; (3) integrating materiality into technical solutions
budget, apps, money, family, design, finance
2271-2276
Snow, Stephen
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Vyas, Dhaval
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2015
Snow, Stephen
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Vyas, Dhaval
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Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval
(2015)
Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home.
CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
18 - 23 Apr 2015.
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(doi:10.1145/2702613.2732808).
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Budgeting is an important means of controlling ones finances and reducing debt. This paper outlines our work towards designing more user centred technology for individual and household budgeting. Based on an ethnographically informed study with 15 participants, we highlight a misalignment between people's actual budgeting practices and those supported by off-the-shelf budgeting aids. In addressing this misalignment we outline three tenets that may be incorporated into future work in this area. These include (1) catering for the different phases of engagement with technology; (2) catering for the practices of hiding and limiting access to money, and; (3) integrating materiality into technical solutions
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Published date: 2015
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CHI EA '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2015-04-18 - 2015-04-23
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budget, apps, money, family, design, finance
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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Dhaval Vyas
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