Abstract
Despite the widespread proliferation of social media in policy and politics, televised election debates are still a prominent form of large-scale public engagement between politicians and the electorate during election campaigns. Advanced visual interfaces can improve these important spaces of democratic engagement. In this paper, we present a user study in which a new hypervideo technology was compared with a publicly available interface for television replay. The results show that hypervideo navigation, coupled with interactive visualisations, improved sensemaking of televised political debates and promoted people's attitude to challenging personal assumptions. This finding suggests that hypervideo interfaces can play a substantial role in supporting citizens in the complex sensemaking process of informing their political choices during an election campaign, and can be used as instruments to promote critical thinking and political opinion shifting.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102537 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies |
Volume | 145 |
Early online date | 27 Aug 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2021 |
Keywords
- Advanced visual interfaces
- Deliberation within
- Hypervideo
- Interactive visualisations
- Political election debates
- Public deliberation
- Sensemaking
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Education
- General Engineering
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Hardware and Architecture