election debate visualization project full details
Champion:
Anna De Liddo
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
Participant(s):Brian Pluss, Michelle Bachler, Simon Buckingham Shum, Harriett Cornish, Damian Dadswell
Similar Projects:Compendium
Timeline:01 Oct 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
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Election Debate Visualization
The EDV Project will provide radically new ways for the public to replay the televised debates from the next UK general election
During the 2010 UK general election, the first ever televised Prime Ministerial debates took place. Research showed that there was a significant public appetite for this means of learning about the candidates and their policies, but that many viewers were left feeling uncertain about the meaning of and relationship between the competing arguments they had witnessed. KMi pilot research demonstrated the potential value of mapping the debates as visual diagrams. In 2015 the next election is envisaged, providing the opportunity to investigate how knowledge media can deliver completely new ways to replay the debates and engage with the arguments at stake.
Funded by the UK EPSRC
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- University of Leeds
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De Liddo, A., Pedreira Souto, N. and Plüss, B. (2021). Let's replay the political debate: Hypervideo technology for visual sensemaking of televised election debates. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 145 https://oro.open.ac.uk/72223/.
Plüss, B. and De Liddo, A. (2015). Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays. In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, 3-5 Jun 2015, Brussels, Belgium. https://oro.open.ac.uk/45550/.
