The Digital Wallet: Opportunities and Prototypes

Digital Object Prototypes: An Effective Realization of Digital Object Types

Digital Object Prototypes (DOPs) provide the DL designer with the ability to model diverse types of digital objects in a uniform manner while offering digital object type conformance; objects conform to the designer’s type definitions automatically. In this paper, we outline how DOPs effectively capture and express digital object typing information and finally assist in the development of unifi...

Wallet Games

Digital buildings - Challenges and opportunities

This paper considers the wider implications of digital buildings (as currently exemplified by building information models) becoming the norm within the building construction sector. Current deployment is reviewed and the growing opportunity to better address previously identified problems (both process and structural) within the construction industry is considered. Taking a twenty year perspect...

The Wallet Paradox Revisited

Put your wallet on the table next to mine. The game is this: The person whose wallet has less money wins all the money in the other person’s wallet. Do you want to play? You might think along these lines: “I don’t know how much money that other wallet has, and I’m not even sure how much is in mine. If I have more money, then I’ll lose it, but if I have less, I’ll win the larger amount. I have n...

Special Digital Monies: The Design of Alipay and WeChat Wallet for Mobile Payment Practices in China

While research studies of digital and mobile payment systems in HCI have pointed out design opportunities situated within informal and nuanced mobile contexts, we have not yet understood how we can design digital monies to allow users to use monies more easily in these contexts. In this study, we examined the design of Alipay and WeChat Wallet, two successful mobile payment apps in China, which...