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Citizen X:: Designing for Holistic Community Engagement

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Crowdsourcing in urban environments, geospatial annotation, social curation, and engaging citizens through social media applications and community-aware, place-based computing systems are at the forefront of pervasive urban technologies aimed at improving satisfaction, strengthening communities, and empowering citizens as stakeholders. This paper reports on the user-centered design of a holistic community engagement platform that combines the above aims and uncovers insights from both sides of the citizen-government divide for a people's GIS for enhancing urban livability.

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CHItaly '15: Proceedings of the 11th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
September 2015
195 pages
ISBN:9781450336840
DOI:10.1145/2808435
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  1. Holistic community engagement
  2. communities and e-governance
  3. geospatial annotation
  4. technology-mediated social participation

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