scholarly journals Evaluating Community Engagement through Argumentation Maps - A Public Participation GIS Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Michelle Bird
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Interest And Knowledge

Significant advances in public participation geographic information systems technology and online mapping platforms have not translated into enhanced citizen participation in democratic planning processes. This study contributes to addressing this gap by evaluating the engagement of members of an urban community in sustainable neighbourhood planning through argumentation mapping. The study provided an online public discussion forum, together with a neighbourhood map to which the participants could link their discussion contributions. On the basis of participation statistics, contents of contributions, and responses to a survey, we discuss the participants’ technical and engagement experiences. The sixteen registered participants lived within or near the ‘Queen West Triangle’ in downtown Toronto, Canada. They rated themselves as experienced computer users and consequently found the participation in the online discussion forum to be easy. The contributions showed a great degree of interest and knowledge in the issues of sustainable community development. However, while the majority of participants also rated themselves as comfortable with map reading, they found the handling of the online neighbourhood map difficult and did not use the option to link their comments to the map.

scholarly journals Evaluating Community Engagement through Argumentation Maps—A Public Participation GIS Case Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Michelle Bird
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Interest And Knowledge

Significant advances in public participation geographic information systems technology and online mapping platforms have not translated into enhanced citizen participation in democratic planning processes. This study contributes to addressing this gap by evaluating the engagement of members of an urban community in sustainable neighbourhood planning through argumentation mapping. The study provided an online public discussion forum, together with a neighbourhood map to which the participants could link their discussion contributions. On the basis of participation statistics, contents of contributions, and responses to a survey, we discuss the participants' technical and engagement experiences. The sixteen registered participants lived within or near the ‘Queen West Triangle’ in downtown Toronto, Canada. They rated themselves as experienced computer users and consequently found the participation in the online discussion forum to be easy. The contributions showed a great degree of interest and knowledge in the issues of sustainable community development. However, while the majority of participants also rated themselves as comfortable with map reading, they found the handling of the online neighbourhood map difficult and did not use the option to link their comments to the map.

scholarly journals Evaluating Community Engagement through Argumentation Maps - A Public Participation GIS Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Michelle Bird
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Discussion Forum ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Online Discussion Forum ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Interest And Knowledge

Significant advances in public participation geographic information systems technology and online mapping platforms have not translated into enhanced citizen participation in democratic planning processes. This study contributes to addressing this gap by evaluating the engagement of members of an urban community in sustainable neighbourhood planning through argumentation mapping. The study provided an online public discussion forum, together with a neighbourhood map to which the participants could link their discussion contributions. On the basis of participation statistics, contents of contributions, and responses to a survey, we discuss the participants’ technical and engagement experiences. The sixteen registered participants lived within or near the ‘Queen West Triangle’ in downtown Toronto, Canada. They rated themselves as experienced computer users and consequently found the participation in the online discussion forum to be easy. The contributions showed a great degree of interest and knowledge in the issues of sustainable community development. However, while the majority of participants also rated themselves as comfortable with map reading, they found the handling of the online neighbourhood map difficult and did not use the option to link their comments to the map.

Planning Processes for Reconstruction with Citizen Participation After Large-Scale Disasters: A Case Study of Reconstruction Study Meetings in Miyako City After the Great East Japan Earthquake

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michio Ubaura ◽  
◽  
Sei Akiyama ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Local Study ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Local Residents

Town planning for reconstruction after large-scale disasters that is led exclusively by the local government may be insufficient. However, it is also difficult to effectively incorporate citizen participation into planning because of insufficient government manpower and a lack of time among citizens. The present study surveys and analyzes a process of mutual coordination between a local government and citizens involved in town reconstruction planning after a large-scale disaster in order to understand how citizens’ participation in the early stages of the planning process for town reconstruction should be. A local study meeting in Miyako City is taken as a case example. As a method of incorporating citizen participation, it is found that the local study meeting was simple and effective method in obtaining consensus among local residents, but was not effective and may even have exacerbated disagreement regarding fundamental issues.

A Cost-Effective Method of Achieving Meaningful Citizen Participation in Public Roadway Pipeline Studies

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario E. Buszynski
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cost Effective Method ◽  
Participation Process

Many proponents of gas pipeline studies using the public roadway for their facilities have trouble encouraging public participation. Problems resulting from a lack of public involvement are documented. A public participation process designed to gather meaningful public input is presented through a case study of a public roadway pipeline study in southern Ontario. Techniques are outlined to effectively stimulate public interest and document the public involvement process. Recommendations are made as to the transferability of this process to other jurisdictions.

scholarly journals Remote Usability Assessment of Topic Visualization Interfaces with Public Participation Data: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-126
Author(s):  
Ivania Yovanovic ◽  
Iñaki Goñi ◽  
Constanza Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
User Performance ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Usability Assessment ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Tree Map ◽  
Data Visualizations

Citizen participation often faces challenges of transparency and accountability. Visualizations’s usability becomes key for public consultation activities. The tree map is frequently used to disseminate data and to give it back to the population. The purpose of this study is to understand how tree maps and stacked barcharts differ in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in tasks, like solving topic categorization and comparison analysis tasks. An experimental design was used to examine user performance based on a task-based usability test. 34 participants interacted remotely with data visualizations from an open 2016 participatory constitution-making process. The ANOVA showed that stacked barcharts work significantly better for comparison tasks than the tree map, but there are no significant differences in regards to categorization tasks. Public participation initiatives should first determine what cognitive operations their users perform before deciding which visualization interfaces will be more useful for the intended public.

A Methodology for Characterizing System-Level ESD Sensitivity

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Pascale Chagny ◽  
John A. Naoum
Keyword(s):  
Electrostatic Discharge ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Computer Users ◽  
System Level ◽  
Permanent Damage ◽  
Design Improvement ◽  
Desktop Computers

Abstract Over the years, failures induced by an electrostatic discharge (ESD) have become a major concern for semiconductor manufacturers and electronic equipment makers. The ESD events that cause destructive failures have been studied extensively [1, 2]. However, not all ESD events cause permanent damage. Some events lead to recoverable failures that disrupt system functionality only temporarily (e.g. reboot, lockup, and loss of data). These recoverable failures are not as well understood as the ones causing permanent damage and tend to be ignored in the ESD literature [3, 4]. This paper analyzes and characterizes how these recoverable failures affect computer systems. An experimental methodology is developed to characterize the sensitivity of motherboards to ESD by simulating the systemlevel ESD events induced by computer users. The manuscript presents a case study where this methodology was used to evaluate the robustness of desktop computers to ESD. The method helped isolate several weak nets contributing to the failures and identified a design improvement. The result was that the robustness of the systems improved by a factor of 2.

Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ericka A. Albaugh
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Language Spread ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines how civil war can influence the spread of language. Specifically, it takes Sierra Leone as a case study to demonstrate how Krio grew from being primarily a language of urban areas in the 1960s to one spoken by most of the population in the 2000s. While some of this was due to “normal” factors such as population movement and growing urbanization, the civil war from 1991 to 2002 certainly catalyzed the process of language spread in the 1990s. Using census documents and surveys, the chapter tests the hypothesis at the national, regional, and individual levels. The spread of a language has political consequences, as it allows for citizen participation in the political process. It is an example of political scientists’ approach to uncovering the mechanisms for and evidence of language movement in Africa.

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