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Information sharing, scheduling, and awareness in community gardening collaboration

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2015

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ACM Press, New York

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Community gardens are places where people, as a collaborative group, grow food for themselves and for others. There is a lack of studies in HCI regarding collaboration in community gardens and considering technologies to support such collaborations. This paper reports on a detailed study of collaboration in community gardens in Greater Vancouver, Canada. The goal of our study is to uncover the unique nature of such collaborative acts. As one might expect, we found considerable differences between community gardening collaboration and workplace collaboration. The contribution is the articulation of key considerations for designing technologies for community gardening collaboration. These include design considerations like volunteerism, competences and inclusion, synchronicity, and telepresence as unique aspects of community collaboration in community garden. We also articulate the complexities of community gardening collaboration, which raise issues like control, shared language, and collective ownership that exist more as conditions within which to design than "problems" to solve through technologies.

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Wang, Xiaolan; Wakkary, Ron; Neustaedter, Carman; Desjardins, Audrey (2015): Information sharing, scheduling, and awareness in community gardening collaboration. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. DOI: 10.1145/2768545.2768556. ACM Press, New York. ISBN: 978-1-4503-3460-0. pp. 79-88. Long Papers. Limerick, Ireland. June, 27-30, 2015

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