Universal Design Ballot Interfaces on Voting Performance and Satisfaction of Voters with and without Vision Loss

Lee, Seunghyun Tina; Liu, Yilin Elaine; Ruzic, Ljilja; Sanford, Jon A.

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858567

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“…There has been a vast amount of research aiming to translate aspects of traditional democratic processes into digital form, for example by digitising voting and petition systems [37,63,64] or providing platforms to give feedback and opinion online [16,33,48]. HCI research in this area has been successful in opening up traditional consultation practices to wider audiences-making engagement richer [27], more playful [26] or accessible [38]. While work in this area has inherent value, it comes with certain political limitations in the context of local decision-making; it proposes systems that reinforce representative partisan politics, while failing to identify whether, and if so how, engagement (e.g., leaving a vote, commenting an opinion) really influences decisionmaking and outcomes.…”

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Community Conversational

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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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