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A bright green perspective on sustainable choices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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A sustainable identity: the creativity of an everyday designer
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Enhancing the 'second-hand' retail experience with digital object memories
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Beyond being green: simple living families and ICT
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI
A sustainable design fiction: Green practices
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI
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We present a qualitative study of reacquisition-the acquisition of previously possessed goods-involving in-depth interviews with 18 reacquirers within or nearby Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Based on critiques of sustainable consumption and our findings, we reframe technology consumption as acquisition, possession, dispossession and reacquisition. We present four reacquisition orientations describing our participants' motivations and practices: casual, necessary, critical, and experiential. We then present a range of findings including issues with work, time and effort involved in reacquisition, and values and practices of care and patience associated with invested reacquirers. We conclude with implications for designing technologies to support current reacquisition practices, as well as broader opportunities for HCI and interaction design to incorporate non-mainstream reacquisition practices and values into more mainstream technologies.