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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Vasilis Vlachokyriakos, Dr Paul Dunphy, Dr Nick TaylorORCiD, Dr Robert Comber, Professor Patrick OlivierORCiD
Digital voting is used in a variety of contexts from politics to mundane everyday decisions. One of the motivations underlying many group decision-making systems is the promotion of participation, yet there is little research that explores how features of digital voting systems can be designed to facilitate this, other than providing multiple voting channels. In this paper we propose a framework that explores the design space of digital voting from the perspective of participation. We ground our discussion in the design of BallotShare, a first configuration of our proposed framework, designed to enable the study of group decision-making practices deployed in a workplace setting. Across five weeks, participants created and took part in non-standard polls relating to events and other spontaneous group decisions. Following interviews with participants we identify significant drivers and limitations of individual and collective participation in the voting process: social visibility, social inclusion, commitment and delegation, accountability, influence and privacy.
Author(s): Vlachokyriakos V, Dunphy P, Taylor N, Comber R, Olivier P
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2014
Pages: 19
Print publication date: 14/02/2014
Source Publication Date: February 2014
Report Number: 1410
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/1410.pdf
