The political sensorium

Dade‐Robertson, Martyn; Taylor, Nick; Marshall, Justin; Olivier, Patrick

doi:10.1145/2421076.2421084

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“…Respondents often do not have access to the results of the survey or are not informed where these results can be found. To make VoxBox more enticing to use and to trigger discussions from by-standers, we decided to make the collected results visible to the users [3]. Real-time results were shown in two different ways: on the website (for which the URL was printed on the incentive balls), and on a set of visualizations on the reverse side of the system.…”

Section: Connecting Answers and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The aim of our research was to make VoxBox mostly selfexplanatory so that it was clear what it was and why someone would want to interact with it [7]. We further designed interactions to require no technological knowledge or skills [3], and made the system, in most cases, usable without instructions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this light, researchers have designed very simple physical button-based voting boxes for gathering opinions [1,3,5,15]. A benefit of using such simple input devices is that they are cheap to make and can be situated in a range of public places.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Golsteijn

Gallacher

Koeman

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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Gathering public opinions, such as surveys, at events typically requires approaching people in situ, but this can disrupt the positive experience they are having and can result in very low response rates. As an alternative approach, we present the design and implementation of VoxBox, a tangible system for gathering opinions on a range of topics in situ at an event through playful and engaging interaction. We discuss the design principles we employed in the creation of VoxBox and show how they encouraged wider participation, by grouping similar questions, encouraging completion, gathering answers to open and closed questions, and connecting answers and results. We evaluate these principles through observations from an initial deployment and discuss how successfully these were implemented in the design of VoxBox.

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Section: Connecting Answers and Resultsmentioning

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Section: Encouraging Participationmentioning

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Koeman

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…Indeed such critical perspectives have informed the development of more bespoke responses in re-conceptualising the role of data as situated within place. This has gained further traction in communicating issues and concerns for local planning [25] and budgeting [12] where more deliberative and discursive forms of place-based data sharing have been explored for positive change.…”

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“…The aesthetics of place, sensorial spaces that offer enchanting, enriching and playful experiences have been designed and evaluated in how media architecture can open up alternative ways for people to engage with urban environments [4] [26] [27]. More recent developments have seen a turn to more participatory, political and infrastructural concerns within cities [7][8] [12] [17], particularly in light of smart city development and the interconnected potential of mobile technologies and crowd-sourced data collection, presentation and action. Yet research in this area has so far paid little attention to the politics of place and concerns for who is included and excluded from the discourses and management of place-based media interactions for urban planning and development [18].…”

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Re-configuring participatory media for citizen elders in urban planning

Clarke

Crivellaro

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 3rd Media Architecture Biennale Conference

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We discuss an experimental pilot study collecting and sharing media to explore active citizen engagement with older adults in the city. Our purpose was to inquire into the potential role of audiovisual media collection and presentation to inform urban planning. We encouraged collective documentation of the associations older people have with place and reflected on shared experiences within the context of mobile and civic technologies. We report on different phases of the study, contributing insights on the potential role of digital media to raise awareness and sensitivities to alternative perspectives providing expression of people's values. We speculate on potential opportunities for media architecture to present and re-mix media and make placebased contentions palpable.

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Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 US presidential election campaign

Belcastro

Branda

Cantini

et al. 2022

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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Every day millions of people use social media platforms by generating a very large amount of opinion-rich data, which can be exploited to extract valuable information about human dynamics and behaviors. In this context, the present manuscript provides a precise view of the 2020 US presidential election by jointly applying topic discovery, opinion mining, and emotion analysis techniques on social media data. In particular, we exploited a clustering-based technique for extracting the main discussion topics and monitoring their weekly impact on social media conversation. Afterward, we leveraged a neural-based opinion mining technique for determining the political orientation of social media users by analyzing the posts they published. In this way, we were able to determine in the weeks preceding the Election Day which candidate or party public opinion is most in favor of. We also investigated the temporal dynamics of the online discussions, by studying how users’ publishing behavior is related to their political alignment. Finally, we combined sentiment analysis and text mining techniques to discover the relationship between the user polarity and sentiment expressed referring to the different candidates, thus modeling political support of social media users from an emotional viewpoint.

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The political sensorium

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Re-configuring participatory media for citizen elders in urban planning

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