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VoxBox: A Tangible Machine that Gathers Opinions from the Public at Events

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Connie Golsteijn,

Sarah Gallacher,

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 201 - 208

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680588

Published: 15 January 2015 Publication History

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Gathering public opinions, such as surveys, at events typically requires approaching people in situ, but this can disrupt the positive experience they are having and can result in very low response rates. As an alternative approach, we present the design and implementation of VoxBox, a tangible system for gathering opinions on a range of topics in situ at an event through playful and engaging interaction. We discuss the design principles we employed in the creation of VoxBox and show how they encouraged wider participation, by grouping similar questions, encouraging completion, gathering answers to open and closed questions, and connecting answers and results. We evaluate these principles through observations from an initial deployment and discuss how successfully these were implemented in the design of VoxBox.

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VoxBox: A Tangible Machine that Gathers Opinions from the Public at Events
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

January 2015

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DOI:10.1145/2677199

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