TY - GEN
T1 - Facilitating participatory decision-making in local communities through map-based online discussion
AU - Yu, Bo
AU - Cai, Guoray
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on ideas, research, and development of many colleagues in GeoVISTA center, Penn State University. We want to thank particularly those colleagues who have been engaged in the development process of GeoAnnotor system: Alan M. MacEachren, Scott Pezanowski, Ben Karchner, Michael Stryker, and Anthony Robinson. This research has been partially supported by the Northeast Visualization and Analytics Center (NEVAC).
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© 2009 ACM.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - GIS has been widely used for supporting decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies have been conducted to use maps directly as a communication tool to support community discussion. In this paper, we explore the potential of using geospatial annotations to facilitate map-based online discussion in local communities. We developed a prototype system, which explicitly links participants' discussion contributions with geographic references. The system is based on conceptual understanding of map-based discussion space, which guides the generation of system requirements. We demonstrate the utility of such systems by a hypothetical scenario of building a Smoke-Free campus in a university community.
AB - GIS has been widely used for supporting decision-making in local communities. However, limited studies have been conducted to use maps directly as a communication tool to support community discussion. In this paper, we explore the potential of using geospatial annotations to facilitate map-based online discussion in local communities. We developed a prototype system, which explicitly links participants' discussion contributions with geographic references. The system is based on conceptual understanding of map-based discussion space, which guides the generation of system requirements. We demonstrate the utility of such systems by a hypothetical scenario of building a Smoke-Free campus in a university community.
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U2 - 10.1145/1556460.1556492
DO - 10.1145/1556460.1556492
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885675243
SN - 9781605587134
T3 - C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
SP - 215
EP - 224
BT - C and T 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C and T 2009
Y2 - 25 June 2009 through 27 June 2009
ER -