OurCity: Understanding how visualization and aggregation of user-generated content can engage citizens in community participation

Will Simm; Jon Whittle; Adam Nieman; Anna Portman; John Sibbald

OurCity: Understanding how visualization and aggregation of user-generated content can engage citizens in community participation

Will Simm, Jon Whittle, Adam Nieman, Anna Portman, John Sibbald

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Abstract

OurCity is a site-specific digital artwork designed to solicit, aggregate and visualize citizens' views on the cities in which they live. It aims to allow people to have their voice heard in a way which is fun and engaging and reduces the gap between citizens and policymakers. OurCity builds on our previous work, VoiceYourView (Whittle et al 2010) which used similar data aggregation techniques but a completely different visualization of user-generated data. This paper revisits the key results from VoiceYourView and hence uses OurCity as an additional validation exercise to assess whether VoiceYourView results are generalizable.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	When the City Meets the Citizen - Papers from the 2012 ICWSM Workshop, Technical Report
Pages	36-41
Number of pages	6
Volume	WS-12-04
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Workshop 2012 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 4 Jun 2012 → 4 Jun 2012

Workshop

Workshop	International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media Workshop 2012
Abbreviated title	ICWSM 2012 Workshop
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	4/06/12 → 4/06/12

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OurCity: Understanding how visualization and aggregation of user-generated content can engage citizens in community participation. / Simm, Will; Whittle, Jon; Nieman, Adam et al.
When the City Meets the Citizen - Papers from the 2012 ICWSM Workshop, Technical Report. Vol. WS-12-04 2012. p. 36-41.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review

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