An increasing number of non-profit groups and organizations have formed "libraries" of shared things to leverage the collaborative use of underutilized resources (e.g., power tools) for the benefit of local communities. Their key challenges are the transience and anonymity of their members, and how to nurture creative interactions among them. We designed and developed Roaming Objects, an interactive system aimed at supporting the capture and sharing of equipment-use experiences among these members. We deployed the system for two months in a tool-sharing cooperative to explore how it may help to address these challenges. We offer insights into how resource sharing cooperatives and collectives could be better supported, by proposing design opportunities that facilitate sharing both physical objects and digital information about their use.
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Fedosov, A., Odom, W., Langheinrich, M., & Wakkary, R. (2018). Roaming objects: Encoding digital histories of use into shared objects and tools. In DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1141–1154). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196722
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