Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices

Nick Taylor; Justin Marshall; Alicia Blum-Ross; John Mills; Jon Rogers; Paul Egglestone; David M. Frohlich; Peter Wright; Patrick Olivier

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208594

Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices

Nick Taylor, Justin Marshall, Alicia Blum-Ross, John Mills, Jon Rogers, Paul Egglestone, David M. Frohlich, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI'12
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Joseph A. Konstan, Ed H. Chi, Kristina Hook
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1361-1370
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450310154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208594
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012 http://chi2012.acm.org/

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Conference	CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin, Texas
Period	5/05/12 → 10/05/12
Internet address	http://chi2012.acm.org/

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Taylor, N., Marshall, J., Blum-Ross, A., Mills, J., Rogers, J., Egglestone, P., Frohlich, D. M., Wright, P., & Olivier, P. (2012). Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices. In J. A. Konstan, E. H. Chi, & K. Hook (Eds.), CHI'12: proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1361-1370). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208594

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Taylor, N, Marshall, J, Blum-Ross, A, Mills, J, Rogers, J, Egglestone, P, Frohlich, DM, Wright, P & Olivier, P 2012, Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices. in JA Konstan, EH Chi & K Hook (eds), CHI'12: proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 1361-1370, CHI 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Austin, Texas, United States, 5/05/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208594

Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices. / Taylor, Nick; Marshall, Justin; Blum-Ross, Alicia et al.
CHI'12: proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . ed. / Joseph A. Konstan; Ed H. Chi; Kristina Hook. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 1361-1370.

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