Viewpoint: Empowering communities with situated voting devices

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1361-1370

  Taylor, Nick ^a   Marshall, Justin ^b   Blum Ross, Alicia ^c   Mills, John ^d   Rogers, Jon ^e   Egglestone, Paul ^d   Frohlich, David M ^c   Wright, Peter ^a   Olivier, Patrick ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Community; E democracy; Information appliances; Participation; Voting

Indexed keywords

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNITY; E-DEMOCRACY; INFORMATION APPLIANCES; PARTICIPATION; VOTING;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862062688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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