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Connect 2 congress: visual analytics for civic oversight

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Peter Kinnaird,

Gregory AbowdAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '10: CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2853 - 2862

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753872

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Strong representative democracies rely on educated, informed, and active citizenry to provide oversight of the government. We present Connect 2 Congress (C2C), a novel, high temporal-resolution and interactive visualization of legislative behavior. We present the results of focus group and domain expert interviews that demonstrate how different stakeholders use C2C for a variety of investigative activities. The evaluation provided evidence that users are able to support or reject claims made by candidates and conduct free-form, low-cost, exploratory analysis into the legislative behavior of representatives across time periods.

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DOI:10.1145/1753846

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