Abstract:For designing qualitative interfaces for Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS), the user and use case should be clearly defined. However, PPGIS users may differ significantly, e.g. regarding their cultural background, IT-literacy, or interests. Studies examining varying user types and their impact on PPGIS usability are, however, lacking. In this paper, we analyse the user spectrum through conducting a usability study with 73 participants located in Colombia, Uganda and Austria. We combin… Show more
“…The 'Bürgercockpit'-application is the German-language derivate of the GeoCitizen-framework and application for community planning (geocitizen.org) that combines participatory components with geospatial features. The framework and application enable geo-referenced discussion and collaboration processes for various application domains, facilitating transparent and sustainable planning and design processes and uses geospatial features as a communication medium [67][68][69][70][71].…”
Section: The 'Bürgercockpit'-application Piloting Phase and Commercia...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the design principals of Digital Development [72], we developed both, the conceptual framework as well as the 'Bürgercockpit'-application in a collaborative, incremental and iterative process from diverse disciplines and constant reference to user needs, starting in 2012 [70,[73][74][75]. We applied a cross-platform approach to ensure uniform access across a variety of devices (e.g., web, mobile, and desktop platforms), which helps minimizing development and maintenance costs since only one single code base exists.…”
Section: The 'Bürgercockpit'-application Piloting Phase and Commercia...mentioning
Traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-programs rarely include participatory components that connect CSR-activities of private companies with their local communities. However, there is an increasing demand to include citizens as well as the resources and expertise of the private sector in the design and implementation of local community planning processes. To assess the potential, opportunities, and challenges of including private companies into participatory community planning at a local level, we analyzed the experiences that we collected during the piloting phase and the commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for citizen participation, as well as the results of a digital CSR-questionnaire that we shared with different companies in Austria. Our research indicates that most of the participating companies are interested in including local communities into their CSR-projects using a digital tool, if this tool is easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and provides a flexible structure to address specific project requirements as well as properly designed features for stakeholder communication and user feedback. The findings of both, the ‘Bürgercockpit’-pilot study and the CSR-questionnaire provided us valuable input for designing a prototype solution of a digital CSR-tool for participatory community planning at a local level as well as recommendations for future research in this topic of growing interest.
“…The 'Bürgercockpit'-application is the German-language derivate of the GeoCitizen-framework and application for community planning (geocitizen.org) that combines participatory components with geospatial features. The framework and application enable geo-referenced discussion and collaboration processes for various application domains, facilitating transparent and sustainable planning and design processes and uses geospatial features as a communication medium [67][68][69][70][71].…”
Section: The 'Bürgercockpit'-application Piloting Phase and Commercia...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the design principals of Digital Development [72], we developed both, the conceptual framework as well as the 'Bürgercockpit'-application in a collaborative, incremental and iterative process from diverse disciplines and constant reference to user needs, starting in 2012 [70,[73][74][75]. We applied a cross-platform approach to ensure uniform access across a variety of devices (e.g., web, mobile, and desktop platforms), which helps minimizing development and maintenance costs since only one single code base exists.…”
Section: The 'Bürgercockpit'-application Piloting Phase and Commercia...mentioning
Traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-programs rarely include participatory components that connect CSR-activities of private companies with their local communities. However, there is an increasing demand to include citizens as well as the resources and expertise of the private sector in the design and implementation of local community planning processes. To assess the potential, opportunities, and challenges of including private companies into participatory community planning at a local level, we analyzed the experiences that we collected during the piloting phase and the commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for citizen participation, as well as the results of a digital CSR-questionnaire that we shared with different companies in Austria. Our research indicates that most of the participating companies are interested in including local communities into their CSR-projects using a digital tool, if this tool is easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and provides a flexible structure to address specific project requirements as well as properly designed features for stakeholder communication and user feedback. The findings of both, the ‘Bürgercockpit’-pilot study and the CSR-questionnaire provided us valuable input for designing a prototype solution of a digital CSR-tool for participatory community planning at a local level as well as recommendations for future research in this topic of growing interest.
Questions of spatial scale infiltrate Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) in multiple phases of the data collection from the design of a PPGIS survey to the use of the produced spatial knowledge. This paper provides an overview on how spatial scale and scale effects influence the use of PPGIS tools and the validity and usability of the spatial data they produce. The paper approached scale from two complimentary perspectives: as a concept in human geography and as an attribute of cartographic representation in geographic information science. This discussion is organized around three main viewpoints on scale and PPGIS, namely (1) scale in data collection denoting the geographic extent of the study area and the study population, (2) scale in survey design manifested in technical issues, cartographic representation, usability, and design of the mapping activities, and (3) scale and scale effects in the analysis of PPGIS data and the production of spatial knowledge. Together, these views on scale outline the main scale-related issues to consider when planning a PPGIS survey or working with secondary PPGIS data.
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