Culture and context in an online voting system for young people

Whyte, Angus; Macintosh, Ann; Smith, Ella

Abstract

This paper describes the design and evaluation of an e-voting system used to elect representatives to a local youth parliament, in the Highland region of Scotland. The system was designed with a team of young people, based on their input and the evaluation of a previous system. It was used by young people in secondary schools (aged 11-18) in October 2002 and evaluated in focus groups about a month later. The paper looks at the democratic aims of the system beyond the election itself. It focuses on challenges surrounding usability for young people and a variety of social and technological challenges within the varied and unknown contexts of use.

Citation

Whyte, A., Macintosh, A., & Smith, E. (2003, August). Culture and context in an online voting system for young people. Presented at IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 Summer School on Risks and Challenges of the Network Society

• Conference Name: IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 Summer School on Risks and Challenges of the Network Society
• Publication Date: 2004-06
• Deposit Date: Jan 5, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 5, 2017
• Pages: 107-114
• Book Title: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 Summer School on Risks and Challenges of the Network Society
• ISBN: 9185335037
• Keywords: e-voting, youth parliament, voting systems, democracy,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/459498
• Contract Date: Jan 5, 2017