Taylor, Nick, Marshall, Justin, Blum-Ross, Alicia, Mills, John, Rogers, Jon, Egglestone, Paul, Frohlich, David M., Wright, Peter and Oliver, Patrick (2012) Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices. In: Konstan, Joseph, A., (ed.) Chi '12 Proceedings of the Sigchi Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, Tx, Usa, May 5-10, 2012. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, US, pp. 1361-1370. ISBN 9781450310154
Abstract
Viewpoint is a public voting device developed to allow residents in a disadvantaged community to make their voices heard through a simple, lightweight interaction. This was intended to open a new channel of communication within the community and increase community members' perception of their own efficacy. Local elected officials and community groups were able to post questions on devices located in public spaces, where residents could vote for one of two responses. Question authors were subsequently required to post a response indicating any actions to be taken. Following a two-month trial, we present our experiences and contribute guidelines for the design of public democracy tools and dimensions impacting their effectiveness, including credibility, efficacy and format.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://chi2012.acm.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Association for Computing Machinery |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Media and Communications |
| Funders: | SIGCHI ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2014 14:46 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/55620/ |
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