Values of souvenirs as commodities

Information Technology as Commodities

This paper is about a model of software delivery known as Software as a Service (SaaS). We believe that companies will pay for software as they pay for electricity and telephone. They will pay for what they use. We present why and when it happened. That it came from the outsourcing idea and became possible by the advances in the Internet. Software retailers will become service provides. The mai...

Externalities as Commodities: Comment

Commodities as Collateral∗

This paper proposes and tests a theory of using commodities as collateral for financing. In the presence of capital control and financial frictions, financial investors import commodities and pledge them as collateral to capture the higher expected return in the importing country. The collateral demand for commodities increases commodity prices globally; it also increases futures risk premium i...

Digital Photo Browsing with Souvenirs

The concept design of a recollection supporting device is implemented as a portable Photo Browser using souvenirs as a graspable user interface. When brought into an intelligent room, the Photo Browser is able to recognize the presence of people, graspable objects, and available output devices. The ability of souvenirs to trigger recollections is used as a shortcut to (sub-) sets of photos. Thi...

Data Souvenirs: Environmental psychology and reflective design

The physical form of technology and its relationship to the surrounding environment is an important factor in design; we argue that this is especially true in the design of reflective technology. We suggest environmental psychology theory as a tool for understanding this relationship and use it to propose design guidelines for tangible reflective technologies. As an example, we apply these guid...