Dr JOCELYN SPENCE Jocelyn.Spence@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow
"More Than a Cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild
Spence, Jocelyn; Koleva, Boriana; Benford, Steve; Darzentas, Dimitrios; Flintham, Martin; Glover, Kevin; Wagner, Hanne; Gibson, Rebecca; Thorn, Emily
Authors
BORIANA KOLEVA B.Koleva@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Computer Science
STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science
Dimitrios Darzentas
MARTIN FLINTHAM martin.flintham@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
KEVIN GLOVER kevin.glover@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
Hanne Wagner
Rebecca Gibson
EMILY THORN Emily.Thorn@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Assistant
Abstract
Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has revealed weaknesses of digital gifting and explored possibilities of hybrid gifting. We report an ‘in the wild’ study of a hybrid chocolate gift deployed as a commercial product. Interviews reveal the experiences of receivers and givers, as well as the producer’s friction points and tangible benefits. We reveal how in hybrid gifts the digital elevates the physical while the physical grounds the digital. We discuss how hybrid gifts bridge the tension between receiver-preference and relationship-signalling motivations, the need to further strengthen the exchange and reveal stages of hybrid gifting, and to manage the privacy of sensitive personal messages. We propose to extend the concept of hybrid wrapping to include a finer-grained interleaving of digital into complex packaging and multi-layered wrappings to create more holistic gifting experiences.
Citation
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., Glover, K., …Thorn, E. (in press). "More Than a Cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 14, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 19, 2023 |
Deposit Date | Jan 11, 2023 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 19, 2023 |
Journal | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction |
Print ISSN | 1073-0516 |
Electronic ISSN | 1557-7325 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015 |
Keywords | Human-Computer Interaction |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/15933058 |
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