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TY - GEN
T1 - Making Sense of Blockchain Applications
T2 - 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
AU - Elsden, Chris
AU - Manohar, Arthi
AU - Briggs, Jo
AU - Harding, Mike
AU - Speed, Chris
AU - Vines, John
PY - 2018/4/21
Y1 - 2018/4/21
N2 - Blockchain is an emerging infrastructural technology that is proposed to fundamentally transform the ways in which people transact, trust, collaborate, organize and identify themselves. In this paper, we construct a typology of emerging blockchain applications, consider the domains inwhich they are applied, and identify distinguishing features of this new technology. We argue that there is a unique role for the HCI community in linking the design and application of blockchain technology towards lived experience and the articulation of human values. In particular, we note how the accounting of transactions, a trust in immutable code and algorithms, and the leveragingof distributed crowds and publics around vast interoperable databases all relate to longstanding issues of importance for the field. We conclude by highlighting core conceptual and methodological challenges for HCI researchers beginning to work with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
AB - Blockchain is an emerging infrastructural technology that is proposed to fundamentally transform the ways in which people transact, trust, collaborate, organize and identify themselves. In this paper, we construct a typology of emerging blockchain applications, consider the domains inwhich they are applied, and identify distinguishing features of this new technology. We argue that there is a unique role for the HCI community in linking the design and application of blockchain technology towards lived experience and the articulation of human values. In particular, we note how the accounting of transactions, a trust in immutable code and algorithms, and the leveragingof distributed crowds and publics around vast interoperable databases all relate to longstanding issues of importance for the field. We conclude by highlighting core conceptual and methodological challenges for HCI researchers beginning to work with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.
KW - Blockchain
KW - Distributed ledger technology
KW - Bitcoin
KW - Trust
KW - Identity
KW - Typology
U2 - 10.1145/31735743174032
DO - 10.1145/31735743174032
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85046946819
BT - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
CY - New York
Y2 - 21 April 2018 through 26 April 2018
ER -