Visualising the flow of a local economy to encourage inter- community trading : adding bits to BARTER

Lochrie, Mark and Coulton, Paul and Huck, Jonny and Hallam, Michael and Whittle, Jon and Knowles, Bran (2014) Visualising the flow of a local economy to encourage inter- community trading : adding bits to BARTER. In: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 14) :. ACM, FIN, pp. 899-902. ISBN 9781450325424

Abstract

In this research we present a visualisation to represent the flow of money between traders in the local economy. The aim is to use a rhetorical approach to persuasion such that it promotes inter-community local trading in such a way that it highlights community benefit over personal gain.