Culture and context in an online voting system for young people

Research Output

This paper describes the design and evaluation of an e-voting system used to elect representatives to a local youth parliament, in the Highland region of Scotland. The system was designed with a team of young people, based on their input and the evaluation of a previous system. It was used by young people in secondary schools (aged 11-18) in October 2002 and evaluated in focus groups about a month later. The paper looks at the democratic aims of the system beyond the election itself. It focuses on challenges surrounding usability for young people and a variety of social and technological challenges within the varied and unknown contexts of use.

Date:

31 May 2004
Publication Status:

Published
Library of Congress:

JA Political science (General)
Dewey Decimal Classification:

320 Political science

http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/459498 <p>Whyte, A., Macintosh, A. & Smith, E. (2004). Culture and context in an online voting system for young people. In Duquennoy, P., Zuccato, A., Holvast, J. & Fischer Hübner, S. (Eds.). <i>Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 Summer School on Risks and Challenges of the Network Society</i>, 107-114. ISBN 9185335037</p>

Citation

Whyte, A., Macintosh, A. & Smith, E. (2004). Culture and context in an online voting system for young people. In Duquennoy, P., Zuccato, A., Holvast, J. & Fischer Hübner, S. (Eds.). Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.7 Summer School on Risks and Challenges of the Network Society, 107-114. ISBN 9185335037