Project: Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion through Community Journalism and Bespoke Design

"This week Bespoke asks: Would you miss the Bespoke Newspaper if it was gone?"

Viewpoint is a simple, lightweight voting mechanism de­signed to allow organizations and elected representatives to solicit feedback from a community and provide residents with a ‘voice’ in local matters. Councillors and community groups can post weekly questions on three Viewpoint devices deployed in public locations around the Callon and Fishwick areas of Preston, where residents can vote using buttons on the front of the device. When each poll closes, question post­ers can then submit responses to be displayed on the devices.

Press: Gift of the gadgets to get residents talking, Lancashire Evening Post, 11 August 2011

Publications:

2012

Viewpoint: Empowering Communities with Situated Voting Devices (2012) Nick Taylor, Justin Marshall, Alicia Blum-Ross, John Mills, Jon Rogers, Paul Egglestone, David M. Frohlich, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, Proc. CHI 2012, New York: ACM