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Flash-Poll
Project Flash-Poll Tool
In urban planning, questions that directly affect the lives of residents are often posed. Participation through elections and polling is often insufficient, as the time periods are extensive and future questions cannot be foreseen at the time of the vote. In order to understand current opinions in regard to new questions, supplemental instruments for citizen participation are necessary.
This is the focus of the project “Flash-Poll Tool”. The goal is to develop a tool that makes quick and continuous communication between citizens and decision-makers possible. For this, a smartphone app that can be used to carry out flash polls is to be developed. Using the feedback function, urban decision-making processes can be supported.
Following the first trials at universities and schools, the project team plans to test the app in Berlin, Paris, Nantes and Stockholm. The polling tool is intended to overcome the problems of classic online surveys:
- interest groups mobilise their supporters and manipulate results
- the relationship between those surveyed, those surveying and the topic of the survey question is not given
- surveys take too long
- users do not become any feedback in regard to the overall results
Current
General coordination: Institut für Berufliche Bildung und Arbeitslehre (IBBA), Technische Universität Berlin
Research partners:
nexus
Project partners:
Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG), Technische Universität Berlin
Quality and Usability Labs (QU Labs), Technische Universität Berlin
Service-centric Networking (SNET), Technische Universität Berlin
Deutsche Telekom
KTH - Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (Königlich Technische Hochschule), Stockholm
Universität Stockholm
Alfstore, Frankreich
Missions Publiques, Frankreich
Commissioned by:
European Institutes of Technology, Forschungsserie Digital Cities
Duration: 01/2013 – 12/2015
Nexus staff members:
Christoph Henseler (Gesamtkoordination)
Dr. Angela Jain (Projektleitung nexus)