Fresh and local: the rural produce market as a site for co-design, ubiquitous technological intervention and digital-economic development

  • Authors:
  • Alan Chamberlain;Andy Crabtree;Mark Davies;Chris Greenhalgh;Stela Valchovska;Tom Rodden;Kevin Glover

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Ethnographic studies have played a key part in informing the design and development of a multitude of ubiquitous systems, from control room systems to pervasive games. While other papers have often focused on systems developed for urban contexts, this paper presents the initial findings of a study that focuses on a rural produce market in West Wales as a site for ubiquitous multimedia system-based intervention, digital economic considerations and co-design. The findings relate to the initial ethnographic fieldwork, digital-economic considerations for the site, the evolution of a participatory design strategy for developing a Market Portal and - importantly -- the way that these are informing the design of the ubiquitous technologies relating to the Market Portal.