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  • Citizen X: designing for holistic community engagement
    Publication . Ashby, Simone; Hanna, Julian; Oakley, Ian; Vieira, Tatiana; Abreu, Filipe; Campos, Pedro
    Crowdsourcing in urban environments, geospatial annotation, social curation, and engaging citizens through social media applications and community-aware, place-based computing systems are at the forefront of pervasive urban technologies aimed at improving satisfaction, strengthening communities, and empowering citizens as stakeholders. This paper reports on the user-centered design of a holistic community engagement platform that combines the above aims and uncovers insights from both sides of the citizen-government divide for a people's GIS for enhancing urban livability.
    2015Documento de conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais
  • You're the voice: evaluating user interfaces for encouraging underserved youths to express themselves through creative writing
    Publication . Gonçalves, Frederica; Campos, Pedro; Hanna, Julian; Ashby, Simone; Gonçalves, Frederica; Pereira Campos, Pedro Filipe
    Minority groups are the fastest growing demographic in the U.S. In addition, the poverty level in the U.S. is the highest it has been in the last 50 years. We argue that the communi ty needs more research addressing this user segment, and we present a novel study about how underserved youths react when presented with different UI designs aimed at promoting creative writing. The act of creative writing per se can become the driver of change among underserved teenagers, and researchers should strive to discover novel UI designs that can effectively increase this target group’s productivity, creativity and mental well-being. Using MS Word as baseline, our contribution analyzes the influence of a Zen-like tool (designed by the authors and called Haven), a nostalgic but realistic typewriting tool (Hanx Writer), and a stress-based tool that eliminates writer’s block by provid ing consequences for procrastination (Write or Die). Our results suggest that the Zen characteristics of our tool Ha ven were capable of conveying a sense of calm and concen tration to the users, making them feel better and also write more. The nostalgic Hanx typewriter also fared very well with regard to mental well-being and productivity, as meas ured by average number of words written. Contrary to our initial expectations, the stress-based UI (Write or Die) had the lowest productivity levels.
    2015-06-22Comunicação em conferência Acesso aberto Ver mais