Participatory mobile- and web-based tools for eliciting landscape knowledge and perspectives: introducing and evaluating the Wisconsin geotools project

Eanes, Francis R.; Silbernagel, Janet; Hart, David; Robinson, Patrick W.; Axler, M.

doi:10.1007/s11852-017-0589-2

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“…First, societal problems have to be related to scientific problems [42] so that researchers can work jointly with practical experts [35] on an equal basis [37] involving scientific and non-scientific sources or practices [43]. This alignment of partners' needs and desires makes the process relevant to all parties [44], contributes to both societal and scientific progress, accounts for the diversity of perspectives [39], and can create a culture of accountability [36]. Stakeholders need to feel heard, represented and somehow trust researchers to take into consideration their input [37,[45][46][47].…”

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“…The promises of transdisciplinary research can be divided into benefits for project members (internal) and benefits for external stakeholders (external). Within the project boundaries, the most fruitful engagements will occur in environments and partnerships that provide mutually beneficial and relevant learning opportunities for both users and researchers [44]. Mutual learnings should be facilitated in successful transdisciplinary projects [37].…”

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Towards a Transdisciplinary Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border Government Services

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Temple

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The evaluation and assessment of project results and their impact are still a recurring challenge in the digital government discipline. Many technologically driven projects or products have faced challenges, where the technology is advanced, but the market adoption and user acceptance are still lacking. To counter these challenges, this paper presents a transdisciplinary evaluation framework and how it could be applied. The foundation for the evaluation framework was a literature review on the most recent and relevant academic publications on transdisciplinary evaluations, which was narrowed down by using selected relevant search terms. This theoretical background was enhanced by a series of practical workshops to validate the findings. By using a transdisciplinary approach, this paper presents a transdisciplinary evaluation framework that enhances the evaluation process of project results in the digital government discipline with six pillars to reflect (1) the real word context, (2) interdisciplinary research, (3) going beyond science, (4) interaction (5) integration, and (6) relevance. Alongside these pillars, dimensions of measurement for the evaluation are also presented and elaborated on. While this evaluation framework could be adopted for many types of projects or products, this paper showcases how it is applied for an international digital government pilot research project throughout its development process. It presents the methodology and process used in establishing the evaluation framework, the evaluation framework itself, and a short discussion.

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Towards a Transdisciplinary Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border Government Services

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Temple

Sellung

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Personalized story maps are growing in popularity for use cases in k-12 and higher education (e.g., Battersby and Remington, 2013;Strachan and Mitchell, 2014;Marta and Osso, 2015) as well as scientific outreach (e.g., Silbernagel et al, 2015;Eanes et al, 2018), but are not without concerns. Designers warn that non-expert design can lead to visual stories with poor data quality, misleading symbolization, and ultimately incoherent narratives, although many initial fears have been allayed with smart default choices and design support 'help' resources (Mead, 2014;Austin, 2018).…”

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Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes

Roth

2020

The Cartographic Journal

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In this article, I review considerations and techniques for approaching cartographic design as visual storytelling. Stories, like maps, are a method for documenting and explaining, for meaningfully abstracting our experiences, for communicating and sharing, and for asserting a particular worldview. I argue that visual storytelling offers an entry point for hybridization in cartography, uniting technology with praxis, product with process, and design with critique while opening rich new avenues for transdisciplinary research and design. I begin by introducing influences on map-based visual storytelling and review ten recurring themes that make visual storytelling different from traditional perspectives on cartographic design. I then offer three of potentially many ways to articulate and organize the design space for mapbased visual storytelling: foundational narrative elements and their adaptation to geographic phenomena and processes, visual storytelling genres delineating different story experiences, and visual storytelling tropes used to advance narratives across text, maps, images, and other multimedia. I conclude with a call for future research on visual storytelling in cartography, including visual design, visual ethics, and visual literacy.

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Evaluating Digital Government Projects: Emphasizing Process and Relevance Through Transdisciplinary Research

Temple,

Eibl

2024

From Electronic to Mobile Government

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Government organizations worldwide focus on digital solutions to improve public services and enhance citizen experience. These initiatives continue to receive significant resource allocation. There exists the need for a thorough evaluation to ensure that these projects deliver the intended benefits and address citizen needs. Currently, the absence of a single suitable evaluation method poses a challenge. The complexity of these projects demands a dynamic evaluation environment to understand societal impact and relevance. Relevance implies assessing to what extent a project aligns with the stakeholders’ goals, needs, and desires, mainly government organizations and citizens or businesses. This chapter explores the importance of relevance in evaluating such projects and highlights the reasons for adopting a transdisciplinary research approach. Unlike traditional disciplinary-focused approaches, transdisciplinary research focuses on real-world context and interdisciplinarity, goes beyond just science, and promotes interaction and integration among involved parties to produce high relevance. By focusing on project outcomes and processes, this research aims to propose relevant metrics for evaluating digital government projects and their relevance in a real-world context. To do so, a series of European research and development projects focusing on digital government will be analyzed using the proposed transdisciplinary evaluation framework to understand if outcomes and processes promote project relevance. This research will help enhance current evaluation approaches for digital government projects. The findings of this study will contribute to the widening of evaluation frameworks for digital government initiatives.

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Participatory mobile- and web-based tools for eliciting landscape knowledge and perspectives: introducing and evaluating the Wisconsin geotools project

Cited by 4 publications

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Towards a Transdisciplinary Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border Government Services

Towards a Transdisciplinary Evaluation Framework for Mobile Cross-Border Government Services

Cartographic Design as Visual Storytelling: Synthesis and Review of Map-Based Narratives, Genres, and Tropes

Evaluating Digital Government Projects: Emphasizing Process and Relevance Through Transdisciplinary Research

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