Understanding participation and opportunities for design from an online postcard sending community

Ryan Kelly; Daniel Gooch

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Understanding participation and opportunities for design from an online postcard sending community

Ryan Kelly, Daniel Gooch

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The advent of Internet communication has seen much personal correspondence move from paper-based into digital form. But while the Internet is often associated with the decline in paper-based communication, it also provides opportunities to exchange traditional ephemera in new, exciting ways. We present here an analysis of Postcrossing, an online system that facilitates the sending of non-digital postcards among random strangers. Via a survey study of Postcrossing users, we elicit six key factors that contribute to the Postcrossing experience. We consider how these elements might be carried over into other digital communication technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS '12 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of Publication	New York, U. S. A.
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	568-571
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450312103
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2318041
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	DIS 2012: Designing Interactive Systems Conference - Newcastle, UK United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jun 2012 → 14 Jun 2012

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Conference	DIS 2012: Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Newcastle
Period	10/06/12 → 14/06/12

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Understanding participation and opportunities for design from an online postcard sending community. / Kelly, Ryan; Gooch, Daniel.
DIS '12 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference . New York, U. S. A.: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 568-571.

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Kelly, R & Gooch, D 2012, Understanding participation and opportunities for design from an online postcard sending community. in DIS '12 Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, U. S. A., pp. 568-571, DIS 2012: Designing Interactive Systems Conference , Newcastle, UK United Kingdom, 10/06/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2318041

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