Vote with your feet : hyperlocal polling for urban screens

Vote with Your Feet is a hyperlocal polling tool for urban screens that lets users express their opinion on current affairs. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV, it is meant to reflect the mindset of the community and its diversity. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and lets the user vote by stepping with their foot on one of two physical buttons. By not only displaying the local but also national results (taken from newspaper polls or TV news), it creates a sense of place and can spark offline conversations as well as making people think about their own opinion. As a tangible media installation that bridges physical and digital urban layers, the project empowers citizens and facilitates a bottom-up approach in terms of stimulating opinions and decision making (rather than broadcasting or automating). In a second iteration of the design, we want to encourage users to submit their own questions.

Vote with your feet : hyperlocal public polling for urban screens

Technological advances have led to an ongoing spread of public displays in urban areas. However, they still mostly show passive content such as commercials and digital signage. Researchers took notice of their potential to spark situated civic discourse in public space and have begun working on interactive public display applications. Attracting people’s attention and providing a low barrier for user participation have been identified as major challenges in their design. This thesis presents Vote With Your Feet, a hyperlocal public polling tool for urban screens allowing users to express their opinions. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV or polls on news websites, the tool is meant to reflect the mindset of the community on topics such as current affairs, cultural identity and local matters. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and enables users to vote by stepping on one of two tangible buttons on the ground. This user interface was introduced to attract people’s attention and to lower participation barriers. Vote With Your Feet was informed by a user-centred design approach that included a focus group, expert interviews and extensive preliminary user studies in the wild. Deployed at a bus stop, Vote With Your Feet was evaluated in a field study over the course of several days. Observations of people and interviews with 30 participants revealed that the novel interaction technology was perceived as inviting and that Vote With Your Feet can spark discussions among co-located people.

Vote with your feet : local community polling on urban screens

Falling prices have led to an ongoing spread of public displays in urban areas. Still, they mostly show passive content such as commercials and digital signage. At the same time, technological advances have enabled the creation of interactive displays potentially increasing their attractiveness for the audience, e.g. through providing a platform for civic discourse. This poses considerable challenges, since displays need to communicate the opportunity to engage, motivate the audience to do so, and be easy to use. In this paper we present Vote With Your Feet, a hyperlocal public polling tool for urban screens allowing users to express their opinions. Similar to vox populi interviews on TV or polls on news websites, the tool is meant to reflect the mindset of the community on topics such as current affairs, cultural identity and local matters. It is novel in that it focuses on a situated civic discourse and provides a tangible user interface, tackling the mentioned challenges. It shows one Yes/No question at a time and enables users to vote by stepping on one of two tangible buttons on the ground. This user interface was introduced to attract people’s attention and to lower participation barriers. Our field study showed that Vote With Your Feet is perceived as inviting and that it can spark discussions among co-located people.

Intervenir auprès des immigrants en situation illégale, du soutien discret à la désobéissance civile

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Problèmes de premier passage et de commande optimale pour des chaînes de Markov à temps discret.

Nous considérons des processus de diffusion, définis par des équations différentielles stochastiques, et puis nous nous intéressons à des problèmes de premier passage pour les chaînes de Markov en temps discret correspon- dant à ces processus de diffusion. Comme il est connu dans la littérature, ces chaînes convergent en loi vers la solution des équations différentielles stochas- tiques considérées. Notre contribution consiste à trouver des formules expli- cites pour la probabilité de premier passage et la durée de la partie pour ces chaînes de Markov à temps discret. Nous montrons aussi que les résultats ob- tenus convergent selon la métrique euclidienne (i.e topologie euclidienne) vers les quantités correspondantes pour les processus de diffusion. En dernier lieu, nous étudions un problème de commande optimale pour des chaînes de Markov en temps discret. L’objectif est de trouver la valeur qui mi- nimise l’espérance mathématique d’une certaine fonction de coût. Contraire- ment au cas continu, il n’existe pas de formule explicite pour cette valeur op- timale dans le cas discret. Ainsi, nous avons étudié dans cette thèse quelques cas particuliers pour lesquels nous avons trouvé cette valeur optimale.

Notifiche push in applicativi Android: uso di gcm ed una soluzione alternativa basata su long-polling http

Vengono presentate due soluzioni per le notifiche push in ambiente Android: le soluzioni trattate riguardano l'uso di GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) ed una implementazione che impiega il Long-Polling HTTP come alternativa al servizio GCM.

Chroniques de Espa[n]ya fins aci no diuulgades : que tracta d[e]ls Nobles e Inuictissims Reys dels Gots, y gestes de aquells, y dels Co[n]tes de Barcelona, e Reys de Arago, ab moltes coses dignes de perpetua memoria / compilada per lo honorable y discret

Nouament imprimida en lany M.D.xlvij.

Discret rahonament, quiexa formal que fan contra el Micalet de la Seu, la Torre de Espioca, y la Torre de Paterna, sobre la gran visita que éste tingué en lo dia cinc de Deembre [sic] ... per veure y admirar tan magnífica obra y deliciosa vista ... Carlos Quart (que Deu guart) y el señor Don Fernando de Borbó ... : [Texto impreso] [primera (-segunda) parte]

Hay un ejemplar encuadernado con: Individual noticia de todos los altares, arcos pinturas, adornos y lo mas exquisito y notable que havia en la carrera de la procession, y de las iluminaciones en general ... : (XVIII/1705).

Not yet the Internet election : online media, political commentary and the 2007 Australian federal election

This paper undertakes an overview of two developments in online media that coincided with the 'year-long campaign' that was the 2007 Australian Federal election. It discusses the relatively successful use of the Internet and social media in the 'Kevin07' Australian Labor Party campaign, and contrasts this to the Liberal-National Party's faltering use of You Tube for policy announcements. It also notes the struggle for authority in interpreting polling data between the mainstream media and various online commentators, and the 'July 12 incident' at The Australian, where it engaged in strong denunciation of alleged biases and prejudices among bloggers and on political Web sites. It concludes with consideration of some wider implication for political communication and the politics-media relationship, and whether we are seeing trends towards dispersal and diversification characterising the 'third age' of political communication.