Welcome!
We are a research team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate providing better support for peer-to-peer service transactions, and we hope this site can help to share our research, provide resources, and raise awareness of the mobile apps we’re developing to help timebanks.
On this site, you’ll be able to find links to download the current hOurworld mobile app, information on the next-generation app we’re working on, and more about the team.
Our work began in 2011, when we first partnered with hOurworld to develop a mobile app for timebanking. This work has resulted in the formal release of hOurworld’s mobile app on the June 6th, 2015. Our work on Smart Transaction Matching continues; watch that space for exciting news.
The key focus areas of the project are:
- Encouraging pro-social interactions in which people can provide timely help to each other when needed.
- Developing technology to recommend transactions to people that are responsive to the current context so that the person who is best placed to perform a task (such as picking up eggs from the supermarket now) gets the recommendation to do so.
The project’s principal investigators are:
- Victoria Bellotti – PARC and UCSC
- John M Carroll – Penn State University
- Anind Dey – Carnegie Mellon University