Democracy [revised]: Participation Through Multimodal Communication
Communicating expressions, opinions, preferences, and life stories as an enhancer of democracy
Project period: Januari 2010 - December 2012
The objective with this project is to provide with multimodal services that enable people to tell and express their stories, opinions, and preferences. The project will study how these are expressed, what discussions they create, how public knowledge as well as governmental attitudes and information may be extracted. Further we aim to design process models for how such content may be encompassed and conceptualised by decision making authorities or other social institutions to stimulate the citizen/government/authority/civil-servants interaction in a society with high level of ICT integration. Work will then also have to focus on development of social and technology infrastructures for multimodal communication channels facilitating for and encouraging citizens to provide improved contact with authorities such as political representatives.
Within this context we will study how the use of various techniques and tools mediates expressions (how appropriate tools are for the “catching and shaping” of emotional expressions, how appropriate a chosen media is to present this, to illustrate and recreate an expression). The project aims to find new solutions that can help citizens in their daily life to create and communicate stories using combinations of text, images, audio and video in various forms and possibly also new means and tools for expression. The overall objective is to empower verbal and non-verbal human communication using mobile ICT, enriching the use of such technologies from a human perspective.
Senast uppdaterad: 22 mars 2011
Sidansvarig:
Robert Ramberg
Project members
Project leader: Robert Ramberg
Other researchers from DSV:
- Love Ekenberg
- Mats Danielson
- Aron Larsson
Researchers from KTH/CSC:
- Jan Gulliksen
- Ann Lantz
