Reflections on Value: Policy Makers Evaluate Federal Information Systems

Weiss, Jeffrey; Gruber, Judith E.; Carver, Robert H. F.

doi:10.2307/975571

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“…The field of Human-Computer Interaction has a long history of research into how technology supports, limits, constrains and changes the way public services are run and how local communities can effect change (e.g., [1,2]). More recently, this has coalesced into an interest in Digital Civics, which "aims to support citizens becoming agents of democracy with and through technologies and in dialogue with the institutions that can actualize public will."…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding to facilitate community-led projects in the context of digital civics

Gooch

Kelly

Stiver

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding to facilitate community-led projects in the context of digital civics

Gooch

Kelly

Stiver

et al. 2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…More broadly, there is a rich history within computing in considering the role of technology in supporting both public participation in democratic process (e.g., [25,28]) and the ways technology-and data in particularmight reconfigure the running of government and the production of different classes of public services (e.g., [7,50,54]). More recently, the smart city movement marks a turn toward developing computing technology for critical urban infrastructures [17,35,36].…”

Section: A Triptych Of Digital Democratic Encountersmentioning

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Planning with Crowdsourced Data

Dantec

Asad

Misra

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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One subclass of human computation applications are those directed at tasks that involve planning (e.g. tour planning) and scheduling (e.g. conference scheduling). Interestingly, work on these systems shows that even primitive forms of automated oversight on the human contributors helps in significantly improving the effectiveness of the humans/crowd. In this paper, we argue that the automated oversight used in these systems can be viewed as a primitive automated planner, and that there are several opportunities for more sophisticated automated planning in effectively steering crowdsourced planning. Straightforward adaptation of current planning technology is however hampered by the mismatch between the capabilities of human workers and automated planners. We identify and address two important challenges that need to be overcome before such adaptation of planning technology can occur: (i) interpreting inputs of the human workers (and the requester) and (ii) steering or critiquing plans produced by the human workers, armed only with incomplete domain and preference models. To these ends, we describe the implementation of AI-MIX, a plan generation system that uses automated checks and alerts to improve the quality of plans created by human workers.

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“…(This notion is borrowed from Feldman, 1985. ) Associated with each problem that may become active is an &dquo;existence probability&dquo;-that is, the probability that the inventory contains analyses which are relevant to the policy theories (Weiss et al, 1986) that participants hold concerning that problem. In addition, a &dquo;conditional acquisition probability matrix&dquo; is specified.…”

Section: Incorporating Analytically-based Information Into Models Of mentioning

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Simulation Models and the Study of Information Utilization in Public-Sector Decision Making

Mandell

1989

Knowledge

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McGrath and his associates (1982) argue persuasively that in order to advance knowledge in a given area, a variety of research approaches whose strengths and weaknesses complement, rather than reproduce, one another must be employed. Yet, research in the area of knowledge utilization has been dominated by surveys and interviews of potential users. Hence, progress in understanding the utilization of policy information in decision making requires that methodological approaches other than surveys and interviews whose weaknesses overlap as little as possible with those of surveys and interviews be identified and applied.

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Reflections on Value: Policy Makers Evaluate Federal Information Systems

Cited by 15 publications

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The benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding to facilitate community-led projects in the context of digital civics

The benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding to facilitate community-led projects in the context of digital civics

Planning with Crowdsourced Data

Simulation Models and the Study of Information Utilization in Public-Sector Decision Making

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