HCC: Small: Socio-technical Issues in Mobile Time Banking

时间银行是指参与者提供和接受服务的以社区为基础的志愿服务；例如，一个邻居可能是一个能干的杂工，另一个邻居有一辆重型皮卡。每个人都可以提供社区服务，做他/她能为其他成员做的事。为此，他们可以获得时间积分，这些积分可以用来换取其他服务，比如园艺。一个社区中介实体，一个时间银行，记录着获得和赎回的时间积分。时间银行对工作、公民身份、志愿服务、社区参与和社会包容的概念有着广泛的影响。近年来，时间银行在世界范围内迅速普及。当前时间银行主要关注异步事务。本项目将结合移动计算和Web 2.0服务，开展移动时间银行的设计研究调查。这项工作将支持更精细、接近实时的社区服务交换调度。这种方法允许许多新的时间银行可能性。例如，一个孩子带着头痛从学校回家。他的母亲发出了一个请求，一个路过当地药店的邻居也买到了阿司匹林。更广泛的影响：该项目将通过直接扩展当前的时间银行基础设施，从根本上扩展时间银行的概念，并在全球范围内支持时间银行。它可以提供家庭和社区基础设施，以缓解太多待办事项的忙碌压力，同时通过改善健康和社区意识提高生活质量。它可以提高在货币经济中经常贬值的非正式准工作活动的可见度和价值，并促进从志愿活动向有偿工作的过渡，这是减少长期失业的一项关键政策战略。该项目为学生参与者整合了教育、研究和社区服务。pi将与校园项目合作，以确保多样化的学生了解我们的工作。

Time banking refers to community-based volunteering in which participants provide and receive services; for example, one neighbor might be a competent handyman, another has a heavy-duty pickup truck. Each can provide community service doing what he/she can do for other members. For this, they receive time credits that can be exchanged for other services, say, gardening. A community brokering entity, a time bank, keeps track of time credits earned and redeemed. Time banks have pervasive implications for conceptions of work, citizenship, volunteering, community engagement, and social inclusion. Time banking has spread rapidly in recent years throughout the world.Current time banking focuses on asynchronous transactions. This project will incorporate mobile computing and Web 2.0 services to carry out a design research investigation of mobile time banking. The work will support finer grain, near-real time scheduling of neighborhood service exchanges. This approach allows many new time banking possibilities. For example, a child comes home from school with a headache. His mother posts a request, and a neighbor who is stopping at the local drug store anyway gets the aspirin.Broader impacts: This project will fundamentally extend the concept of time banking, and support for time banking throughout the world, by directly extending current time banking infrastructures. It can provide domestic and community infrastructure to ease the busyness stresses of too many to-dos, while enhancing quality of life through improved health and sense of community. It can increase the visibility and valuing of informal quasi-work activities that are often devalued in money-based economies, and facilitate the transition from volunteer activity to paid work, a key policy strategy for reducing chronic unemployment. This project integrates education, research, and community service for student participants. The PIs will work with campus programs to ensure that a diversity of students is aware of our work.