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A Dynamic Microtask Approach to Collecting and Organizing Citizens’ Opinions

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Citizens’ opinions are important information resources for democratic local governments. Since a mere collection of opinions is not easy to analyze, the collected opinions should be organized, so that the governments can effectively analyze it. This paper proposes a scheme where citizens take part in organizing and classifying opinions while answering the questionnaire. In the scheme, we collect citizen opinions in a structured form, with a microtask interface that changes the list of choices dynamically. Our system has been being used by Tsukuba city for several real-world opinion-collection projects.

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  1. Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8550, Japan

    Masaki Matsubara, Masanori Koizumi & Atsuyuki Morishima

  2. Graduate school of Library and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8550, Japan

    Yuhei Matsuda

  3. Public Relations Policy Division, Tsukuba city hall, 1-1-1 Kenkyu-Gakuen, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, 305-8555, Japan

    Ryohei Kuzumi

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  2. Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan

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  3. The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

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Matsubara, M., Matsuda, Y., Kuzumi, R., Koizumi, M., Morishima, A. (2019). A Dynamic Microtask Approach to Collecting and Organizing Citizens’ Opinions. In: Jatowt, A., Maeda, A., Syn, S. (eds) Digital Libraries at the Crossroads of Digital Information for the Future. ICADL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11853. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34058-2_28

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