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Designing Exchangeopoly: A Boardgame to Explore Value Exchange within Communities

Chopra, S. ORCID: 0000-0002-9324-9061, Everson, H. ORCID: 0009-0009-2250-5599 & Vines, J. ORCID: 0000-0003-4051-3356 (2025). Designing Exchangeopoly: A Boardgame to Explore Value Exchange within Communities. In: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 5-9 July 2025, Madeira, Portugal. doi: 10.1145/3715336.3735436

Abstract

In this pictorial, we discuss the design of Exchangeopoly, a boardgame developed to investigate exchanges between people in communities when they help each other out. Such exchanges are often acts of kindness for forms of volunteering that are not remunerated financially and are built on social capital. The boardgame scaffolded explorations of scenarios with participants where informal altruistic interactions in their communities are tokenised, rewarded and incentivised. We focus on the designed-in features and considerations that went into the visual and material production of the game and its gameplay mechanics. We discuss how Exchangeopoly was a valuable method that surfaced existing and speculated practices of exchange, and supported participants to explore the opportunities and problems of representing and rewarding such interactions. We contribute insights about the usefulness of exchangeopoly as a tool to explore scenarios and surface tensions about tokenisation in community value exchange.

Publication Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0. © 2025 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
Publisher Keywords: Monopoly, Community Technologies, Value Exchange, Boardgames, Co-design
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments: School of Science & Technology
School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science
School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science > Human Computer Interaction Design
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