Engaging the city: public interfaces as civic intermediary

This two-day workshop will advance discussion on the role of public interfaces in engaging citizens within the urban context. The aim is to determine how technology can help to develop cities that address the needs and reflect the desires of its inhabitants. The challenge for the HCI community is to design more effective public interfaces that provide citizens with more active access, authorship, and agency. The workshop's field research component will involve visiting the city of Portland as a case study for processing and refining these theoretical considerations. ACM Classification Keywords H.5.3 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces -- collaborative computing, theory and models; Categories and subject descriptors: H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces -- theory and methods; General Terms: Design,

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Michele F. Chang, Katrina Jungnickel, Chet Orloff, Irina Shklovski
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Human Computer Interaction, Information Interfaces, Public Interfaces, User Interfaces