Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Digital Divide?: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide
Participatory sensing in public spaces: activating urban surfaces with sensor probes
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Creating a rural community display with local engagement
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Viewpoint: empowering communities with situated voting devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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In this position paper we outline some of the key themes and background research which may help form a better understanding of the relationship between technology and political activity. The paper is written in an attempt to articulate a better understanding of the relationship between political processes, urban environments and situated technologies. The paper is written from a UK perspective, although the ideas have a broader relevance for relatively developed western democracies. To this end we analyse the political and digital divides which are present in western society focusing on local politics in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK as a case study. Following a brief description of the problem domain we briefly give an outline of an ongoing project Viewpoint which has created a mobile voting system which we are currently deploying in various locations in Newcastle Upon Tyne.