Visualization of social media content is becoming more and more important in our everyday life. Information visualization projects that comprise versatile information such as; spatio-temporal data are much more effectual to analyze key social, political, economic and environmental facts. This research explores the design space of a specialized online public opinion tool making use of data visualization. Our aim is to develop a location-based visualization tool, which turns the online public opinion data into a more legible, effective, and discussable visual format. The ongoing online social, economic and political debates will be presented to the public in a categorized way together with other data collected from different sources. We envision that providing a more comprehensible online public opinion data will be instrumental in citizen engagement, sociological research, urban policymaking processes and urban services.
An Interactive Tool for Citizen Engagement
An Interactive Tool for Citizen Engagement
Keywords: Location-based Visualization, Public Opinion, Politics Visualization, Civic Participation, Social Media, Argument Web, Spatio-temporal Visualization
Team: Özge Genç, Hüseyin Kuşcu (Kakare Interactive), Asım Evren Yantaç Contributors: Damla Çay
Note: This project has been funded with Koç Seed Grant in 2015.
Publishing: Genç, Ö., Çay, D., & Yantaç, A. E. (2015). Participatory Explorations on a Location Based Urban Information System. In Design, User Experience, and Usability: Interactive Experience Design (pp. 357-367). Springer International Publishing.