All Outputs (2)

Organised use of e-democracy tools for young people. (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, E., Macintosh, A., & Whyte, A. (2006). Organised use of e-democracy tools for young people. In M. Wimmer, H. Scholl, Å. Grönlund, & K. Anderson (Eds.), Electronic Government: Communications of the Fifth International EGOV Conference 2006 (260-267)

This paper concerns use of an online policy debating forum: part of a suite of e-democracy tools for a local youth parliament. These e-democracy tools have been used and developed over the last 5 years and are vital to the parliament, as it serves a... Read More about Organised use of e-democracy tools for young people..

Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. (1999)
Conference Proceeding
Davenport, E., Connolly, R., Spence, R., Buckner, K., Whyte, A., & Barr, K. (1999). Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing. In M. Altom, & M. Williams (Eds.), CHI EA '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (35-36). https://doi.org/10.1145/632716.632742

The authors describe the problem of 'community myopia': a lack of awareness of people and resources that might assist members of a community to carry out tasks. They present a prototype social browser in two stages: a basic computer based social netw... Read More about Making interactions visible: tools for social browsing..