Perceptions of Sharing Everyday Purchases

Human behavior research has shown that spending money on others contributes not only to a higher satisfaction from purchases but also increases personal happiness. To better understand the “social” effects of personal spending, and how satisfaction from a purchase affects sharing it with others, we developed a personal finance logging application that not only allowed users to record their daily expenditures, but to also capture both the social and hedonic aspects of these purchases. We recruited 71 participants to record their purchasing behavior with our app for one month. Using a mixed-methods analysis we (i) computationally identify how overall purchase satisfaction relates to its sharing; and (ii) elicit motivational and experiential factors that drive our participants’ sharing of everyday purchases.

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Anton Fedosov

Leonid Ivonin

Marc Langheinrich

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Publication date: July 2018

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Pages: 1-6

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[0001]Università della Svizzera italiana

Via G Buffi 13, Lugano, Switzerland

[0002]University of Bristol

Bristol BS8 1TH, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.99

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

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Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

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Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] R. Belk (2010). Sharing Journal of Consumer Research 36 5: 715–734.

[2] R. Belk 2014 You are what you can access: Sharing and collaborative consumption online Journal of Business Research 67 8: 1595–1600 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2013.10.001

[3] V. Bellotti A Ambard D. Turner C. Gossmann K. Demkova, and J.M. Carroll (2015). A Muddle of Models of Motivation for Using Peer-to-Peer Economy Systems Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '15 ACM Press 1085–1094.

[4] B.L. BergH. Lune (2011). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences Pearson, Boston, MA.

[5] B. CappelliniE. Parsons (2012). Sharing the Meal: Food Consumption and Family Identity In Research in Consumer Behavior (Vol. 14), Russell W. Belk Søren Askegaard Linda Scott (eds.). Emerald Group Publishing Limited 109–128.

[6] E.W. Dunn L.B. Aknin, and M.I. Norton (2008). Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness Science 319, 5870: 1687–1688.

[7] D.A. Epstein B.H. Jacobson E. Bales D.W. McDonald, and S.A. Munson (2015). From “nobody cares” to “way to go!”: A Design Framework for Social Sharing in Personal Informatics Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '15 ACM Press 1622–1636.

[8] G. Farr-Wharton J.H. Choi, and M. Foth (2014). Food talks back: exploring the role of mobile applications in reducing domestic food wastage In Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: the Future of Design (OzCHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA 352–361.

[9] H.S. Ferdous F. Vetere H. Davis B. Ploderer, O'K Hara R Comber, and G. Far-Wharton (2017). Celebratory Technology to Orchestrate the Sharing of Devices and Stories during Family Mealtimes Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '17 ACM Press 6960–6972.

[10] J. Ferreira M. Perry, and S. Subramanian (2015). Spending Time with Money: From Shared Values to Social Connectivity Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing - CSCW '15 ACM Press 1222–1234.

[11] A. Field (2013). Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics Sage.

[12] E. Ganglbauer G. Fitzpatrick Ö. Subasi, and F. Güldenpfennig (2014). Think globally, act locally: a case study of a free food sharing community and social networking In Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (CSCW '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA 911–921.

[13] B.G. GlaserA.L. Strauss (2009). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research Transaction Publishers.

[14] T. IkkalaA. Lampinen (2014). Defining the Price of Hospitality: Networked Hospitality Exchange via Airbnb In Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing (CSCW Companion '14) ACM, New York, NY, USA 173–176

[15] N.A. John (2017). The Age of Sharing Polity, Malden, MA.

[16] J.J. Kaye J. Vertesi J. Ferreira B. Brown, and M. Perry (2014a). #CHImoney: financial interactions, digital cash, capital exchange and mobile money Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14 ACM Press 111–114.

[17] J.J. Kaye M. McCuistion R. Gulotta, and D.A. Shamma (2014b). Money talks: tracking personal finances Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14 ACM Press 521–530.

[18] J. Kennedy (2015). Conceptual boundaries of sharing Information, Communication & Society 19, 4: 461–474.

[19] A.D. MillerW.K. Edwards (2007). Give and Take: A Study of Consumer Photo-sharing Culture and Practice In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems -CHI '07. ACM Press 347–356.

[20] N. RavalP. Dourish (2016). Standing Out from the Crowd: Emotional Labor, Body Labor, and Temporal Labor in Ridesharing Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '16) ACM, New York, NY, USA 97–107.

[21] UK Office for National Statistics. (2016). Statistical bulletin: Family spending in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/bulletins/familyspendingintheuk/financialyearendingmarch2016 (May 22 2016)

[22] A. Voida R.E. Grinter N. Ducheneaut W.K. Edwards, and M.W. Newman (2005). Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '05 ACM Press 191–200.

[23] S. Voida W.K. Edwards M.W. Newman R.E. Grinter, and N. Ducheneaut (2006). Share and Share Alike: Exploring the User Interface Affordances of File Sharing Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems - CHI '06 ACM Press 221–230.

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