Research project Human–Computer Interaction for Economic Encounters
There is an increasing trend towards organizing economic and social exchange with the help of online platforms. The transportation service Uber and the short-term rental service Airbnb are two examples. This project focuses on economic encounters in relation to these new marketplaces.
This project is focused on exchange platforms as an increasingly dominant infrastructural and economic model of the social web. Simply put, exchange platforms are online forums which support the peer-to-peer exchange of labour, resources or goods.
This research project will:
1. examine how multi-sided marketplaces work, for both providers and users,
2. develop new theoretical understandings drawing on market design and the sociology of markets,
3. explore how these types of markets could be redesigned to be fairer and more efficient.
Project members
Project managers
Airi Lampinen
Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor
Members
Riyaj Isamiya Shaikh
Research assistant
Moira Mcgregor
Researcher
