Sens-Us

Golsteijn, Connie; Gallacher, Sarah; Capra, Licia; Rogers, Yvonne

doi:10.1145/2901790.2901877

Cited by 34 publications

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“…The installation has been used to gather opinions from members of the public at a number of events such as the Tour de France in London, and has been shown to incentivise participation through the range of playful and tangible interactions it offers [18]. A similar system, Sens-Us [17] has also been used in a quite different context, to gather data for the UK census (which can include questions about more sensitive topics).…”

Section: Playful Physical Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Squeezy Green Balls

Jennett

Iacovides

Cox

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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We need collective action to tackle global warming. However, research shows that people switch off from being concerned about the environment because they are often too busy, or fail to appreciate their ability to make a difference. An alternative approach is to run campaigns that are able to engage large numbers of people and engender feelings of concern and empowerment. This could then kick-start a range of pro-environmental habits. We present the development and evaluation of a playful installation that aimed to attract attention, and stimulate discussion about environmental issues amongst university staff and students. The first prototype was shown to successfully attract people to engage and interact with the installation. The second prototype was deployed in-the-wild, over the course of a week. We evaluated the extent to which the installation was successful at attracting attention, and in encouraging people to interact with it, to reflect on their habits and to discuss environmental issues with others. We found the Green Ball Kiosk was a fun way to raise discussions about green issues, to encourage the adoption of new environmentally friendly behaviours and to prompt people to maintain existing ones. We suggest that interactive installations such as this can be effective at promoting awareness and generating a 'social buzz' about environmental topics when exhibited as a temporary installation.

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Section: Playful Physical Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Squeezy Green Balls

Jennett

Iacovides

Cox

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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“…The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has a growing interest in technologies for civic participation that promote bottom up processes in communities [3,17,18,43,47]. Recent work evidences a 'civic turn' in the field [5,27] that privileges citizen voice and empowerment, and the expansion of 'digital civics' as a field of enquiry [2,38].…”

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“…Recent work evidences a 'civic turn' in the field [5,27] that privileges citizen voice and empowerment, and the expansion of 'digital civics' as a field of enquiry [2,38]. This domain is concerned with the design of technologies supporting new interactions and relationships between citizens, local community organisations and their local governments [18], with recent studies centering on the challenges of designing tools to support communities of marginalised people, e.g. the urban homeless [32], people with disabilities [14,40] and sex workers [44].…”

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confidence: 99%

Between Grassroots and the Hierarchy

Dow

Comber

Vines

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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There is a growing interest in HCI research studying technology for citizen engagement in civic issues. We are now seeing issues around technologies for empowerment and participation, long discussed in HCI literature, appropriated and formalised in government legislation. In the UK, recent reforms stipulate that community-based service information should be published in continuously updated, collaboratively designed and maintained, online platforms. We report on a qualitative study where we worked with stakeholders involved in the collaborative design, development and implementation of such a platform. Our findings highlight tensions between the grassroots desire to innovate and local governments' rigid compliance with statutory obligation. We pose a series of challenges and opportunities for HCI researchers engaged in the design of civic technologies to consider going forward, addressing issues of engagement in policy, measures of participation and tools for enabling participatory processes in public institutions.

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“…A common characteristic of this work is that it is founded and reliant upon collaboration with public authorities (e.g. [16,26,27]), community social change organisations [2,64], campaign groups [13], charities [17], or other organisations dedicated to building civil society (e.g. [34]).…”

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Community Conversational

Johnson

MacDonald

Briggs

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The development of platforms for community decisionmaking has been of growing interest to the HCI community, yet the ways technology might be woven into traditional consultation processes has been under-studied. We conducted fieldwork at consultation events where residents were invited to discuss and map assets related to their neighbourhoods to inform community decision-making. The fieldwork highlighted problems with equality, turn taking, the evidencing and elaborating on opinions by residents, and challenges related to capturing and documenting the events. We developed Community Conversational-a hybrid tabletop game and digital capture and review platform-in response to these issues. Community Conversational was designed to provide a flexible structure to consultation events related to 'place', and support the production, capture and review of deliberative 'talk' to support decision-making. We study how the platform was used in two consultation events, and discuss the implications of capturing and evidencing local people's opinions for the accountability of decisionmakers and community organisations.

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Sens-Us

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