FeaturesFeatures: Special topic: Communities and technologies

XXIII.1 January + February 2016
Page: 40
Digital Citation

Situated interfaces for engaging citizens on the go


Authors:
Luke Hespanhol, Martin Tomitsch, Ian McArthur, Joel Fredericks, Ronald Schroeter, Marcus Foth

Governments around the world engage with communities to find ways to better support the interests and concerns of communities and stakeholders, aiming to provide opportunities for more citizens to be involved in decisions that affect them. However, traditional methods of community consultation such as face-to-face meetings and online surveys often fail to reach a representative proportion of the public, as they are not easily accessible, require people to dedicate time and effort, and risk being disconnected from the sociocultural context [1,2]. A number of applications have thus been proposed that allow people—as they are passing through public space—to participate…




You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM's Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.

GET ACCESS

Join ACM SIGCHI

In addition to all of the professional benefits of being a SIGCHI member, members get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Subscribe to the ACM Digital Library

Get access to all interactions content online and the entire archive of ACM publications dating back to 1954. (Please check with your institution to see if it already has a subscription.)


Subscribe to interactions

Get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.