VoiceYourView: Collecting real-time feedback on the design of public spaces

Jon Whittle, William Simm, Maria Angela Ferrario, Katerina Frankova, Laurence Garton, Andrée Woodcock, Baseerit Nasa, Jane Binner, Aom Ariyatum

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    Abstract

    This paper reports on VoiceYourView, a kind of intelligent kiosk, which uses speech recognition and natural language processing to gather the public's creative input on the public space designs. Over a six week period, VoiceYourView was deployed in a public space and 2000 design critiques were collected from 600 people. The paper shows that people are capable of providing creative input on their environment using unstructured speech or text and that a good proportion of these comments are actionable. The paper also investigates the use of public displays to auto-summarize comments left by the public so far. Although there is anecdotal evidence that this encourages participation, an experiment found that filtering comments (e.g., to display only positive responses) had no effect on what people had to say.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationUbiComp'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
    PublisherACM
    Pages41-50
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)9781605588384
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 16 Dec 2010
    Event12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2010 - Copenhagen, Denmark
    Duration: 26 Sept 201029 Sept 2010

    Publication series

    NameUbiComp'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

    Conference

    Conference12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2010
    Country/TerritoryDenmark
    CityCopenhagen
    Period26/09/1029/09/10

    Keywords

    • civic engagement
    • intelligent kiosk
    • public reporting

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Science Applications
    • Human-Computer Interaction

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