Participate in the workshop

This workshop will tackle the challenge of designing and configuring money as an interface, exploring and developing an HCI-centred perspective on the nature of money.

The workshop is focused on collaborative design work and therefore we are not seeking authors to share and present papers directly. Prospective participants are instead invited to submit a web form, providing a summary of their relevant prior work, interest in the workshop subject, and list any related publications.

A text version of the web submission form is also available for collaboration and preparation purposes.

In addition, prospective participants are also invited to propose a money-related design context in which users are required to adapt and configure money in some way. These contexts will be explored together during the workshop.

Context descriptions can include:

• The context's core needs / challenges and social nature of money.
• How money is currently configured in this context.
• The ways in which current financial systems do or do not support the need for configurability in the context.
• The workarounds and approaches people take to achieving this now.
• Opportunities / imagination for how this could be made more configurable in the future.

Examples of contexts from our own research include: managing children’s money; joint accounts in the context of financial abuse in intimate relationships; and financial delegation in family care contexts. A more developed context example is included in the workshop paper. See the "Workshop activities" section.

Although proposing a context is not mandatory, those suggesting contexts will be prioritised when selecting submissions for participation in the workshop.

During the workshop, each participant will briefly present their context, and then collaborate to consider what kinds of configurations of money and systems could address the challenge context, and potential ways they could be technologically-enabled.

The workshop will deliver a catalogue of contexts where configurable money is required; and a set of design proposals that address those contexts. The workshop team will compile these outputs and publish them for dissemination to inspire future work that delivers on the vision of money as an interface.