Slides from the Special Interest Group (SIG) session "Design for Online Deliberative Processes and Technologies: Towards a Multidisciplinary Research Agenda" at the 33rd ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'15), Seoul, April 22, 2015
1. SIG: Online Deliberative
Processes and Technologies
Weiyu Zhang
Communications and New Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, National University
of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Lu Xiao
The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Anna Przybylska
Center for Deliberation, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Anna De Liddo
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Gregorio Convertino
Informatica Corporation, Redwood City, United States
Todd Davies
Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Mark Klein
MIT, Cambridge, USA
2. Definition Deliberation
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• Deliberation concept
– Habermas (1989) – public sphere
– Halpen and Gibbs (2013)
a communication process that involves at least two individuals; that
focuses on a social or political issue where the solutions are
identifiable by participants; and that values equality among
participation and emphasizes rational thinking and logic instead of a
power struggle.
3. Alternative Conceptions of
Deliberation
Political communication: deliberation as group
discussion, distinct from individual thinking and
from decision making
Artificial intelligence: deliberation as a process of
thinking within a single agent, i.e. reasoning based
on beliefs and goals
Law: jury deliberation, which includes discussion,
thinking, and decision making
4. Background – HCI
“Online Deliberation Emerging Tools” Workshop
– ODET 2010
“Large-Scale Idea Management and Deliberation Systems”
(LSID) Workshops
– CHI 2011, CSCW 2012, COOP 2013, C&T 2014
LSID Research Topics
Application
Technology
Theory
Special Issue “Large-Scale Ideation & Deliberation:
Tools and Studies in Organizations”, Journal of
Social Media for Organizations, editors: Gregorio
Convertino, Adam Westerski,
Anna De Liddo, Paloma Díaz
5. Example Deliberation Tools
• ConsiderIt
(http://engage.cs.washington.edu/considerate/)
• DebateGraph (http://debategraph.org/home)
• Deliberatorium
(http://deliberatorium.mit.edu/login?english)
• DebateHub (http://debatehub.net)
• Deme (http://deme.stanford.edu)
• CHI 2015 Best Paper
Designing Political Deliberation Environments to Support
Interactions in the Public Sphere
By Bryan Semaan, Heather Faucett, Scott P Robertson, Misa Maruyama, Sara Douglas
6.
7. World Café Discussions
• Anna – Quality: Control vs. Democracy
• Todd – How to Evaluate Deliberation?
• Weiyu – Motivations to Contribute to
Deliberation
• Lu – Supporting Info Sharing, Interaction, and
Learning in Online Deliberation
• (Gregorio – Virtual Table)
• 45 minutes in total
• Change tables after 20 minutes
Notas del editor
There have been multiple attempts to conceptualize deliberation (e.g., Mathews, 1994; Warren, 1996; Barge, 2002). In his work of conceptualizing public sphere in the society, Habermas (1989) defines deliberation as a process of a group of individuals exchanging their rational arguments about a common or public problem for finding an acceptable solution to all who have a stake in the problem. Halpen and Gibbs (2013) summarizes that there are two common ideas in defining deliberation: “the concept of a genre or form of communication….and the notion that in this process of communication the individuals involved weigh carefully the reasons for and against some of the propositions presented by others” (Halpen and Gibbs, 2013, p.1160). In this paper, we take their perspectives on deliberation, that is, a communication process that involves at least two individuals; that focuses on a social or political issue where the solutions are identifiable by participants; and that values equality among participation and emphasizes rational thinking and logic instead of a power struggle.
“What kinds of interaction structures will improve how a community thinks, makes decisions, and learns?”
“How can data mining and information visualization be applied to LSID systems?”
“How do LSID systems impact different domains, e.g., health, education, engineering, and policy-making?
