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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.
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Laura, 30-something, artist & filmaker
Findings
Patience, Openness & Faith in Things
“I really have faith that things will just turn up when you need them...”
“I just carry this list around in my mind of things we are looking for… it’s like a sort of mental list... My experience has been that when I need something, if I know I need them, I’ll find it.”
“If I need something, I don’t just go out and buy it. I just think about
how to live without it for a while and then it comes, it finds a way to
materialize.” (Kristy, 20s, community organizer)
“I’m patient. … You keep your eyes out. You have your list in the back of
your mind as to what you want or what you need.”
(Bob, 70’s, retired toolmaker)
“I don’t mind being patient and waiting for something to come around. It
usually does. ... I have lists of things [to acquire]” (John, 30’s, sound engineer)
Findings
Patience, Openness & Faith in things | Living without and making lists
{Departures from Firsthand Acquisition}
Care of Things, Self & Others
Findings
Care for things
“This is the chair I was talking about that I might not be able to save. … [The “damage”] may be too significant to—I might not be able to save it.”
Findings
Care for things
Tanya, 30-something, skilled amateur interior designer and remodeler
Findings
Care for things
Findings
Care for things
Michael, 30-something, amateur flea market seller
Findings
Care for things
“I hate to throw away something I think has a use. I mean if it definitely has a good use or function still, I don’t want to throw it away. ... I wanna get it in the hands of someone who could use ‘em”
ImplicationsDesigning from communities of reacquisition
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Recoding
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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Recoding the reacquired & Reacquiring
Recoding trash...
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Recoding the reacquired & Reacquiring
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Making space for reacquisition at the center
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Making space for reacquisition at the center
Virtual spaces may already be doing this...
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Making space for reacquisition at the center
Bicycle Coop Electronics Coop
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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Making space for reacquisition at the center
Hackerspaces
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Mobile Phone Repair
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Making space for reacquisition at the center
Electronics Coop
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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Recirculation & Shared use
Usership, rather than ownership
Reacquisition
Dispossession Possession
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Recirculation & Shared use
Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition
Understanding and learning from practices and values at the margins
Immediacy & Disposability
Patient acquisition
Care for things
