COMPSCI 592C, 3 Credits, Fall 2018
\nTime: Fridays 10:10am-12:10pm
\nLocation:\u00a0Room\u00a0140, Computer Science Building<\/p>\n
Instructor:\u00a0Narges Mahyar
\nEmail: nmahyar@cs.umass.edu
\nOffice:\u00a0Room 322, Computer Science Building
\nOffice hours: Wednesdays 2-3pm<\/p>\n
For discussion forum, in-class activities, deliverables, and grades check out\u00a0Moodle<\/a><\/p>\n Digital Civics is an emerging cross-disciplinary area that explores new ways to utilize technology for promoting public participation in the design and delivery of civic services. Digital civics empowers the public to take a more active role in important civic decisions.<\/p>\n In this course, students will learn key concepts and background on HCI for digital civics, read and discuss key papers, case studies and digital civics systems that question conventional models of public participation. Students will present papers, participate in group discussions, and carry out research projects in teams.<\/p>\n Topics include human-computer interaction, research methods for digital civics, social computing, citizen science, collective intelligence, and community sourcing.<\/p>\n Textbooks<\/b> Course Origins<\/b> Prerequisites<\/b> Students must complete weekly readings and participate in discussions. Each week I will post 3-4 papers. Every student must sign up to present three<\/b> research papers in class, and lead the discussion for that paper. For each class, we need at least 2 volunteers to present. Please sign up for paper presentation no later than Tuesday nights and add your presentation slides no later than Thursday nights. In other weeks when you are not presenting, you need to read at least 1-2 papers per session and sign up as a discussant.\u00a0In addition, students will work in a group of 2-3 \u00a0to design and prototype a course project.<\/p>\n This class will involve a great amount of discussion with time devoted to lecture, in-class activities, student presentations, and research crits. Grades will reflect participation and performance on paper presentations, discussions, and projects.<\/p>\n Attendance is required. Students are expected to arrive at class on time, participate in class activities and discussions, and be a good team member. As a show of respect to fellow students, laptops and cellphones should remain off unless the instructor explicitly permits them for class activities. During crits, students are expected to offer constructive criticism on their classmates\u2019 work. If students must miss class for an excusable reason, get permission IN ADVANCE from the instructor and keep teammates informed.<\/p>\n Grading breakdown<\/b> Poor attendance can decrease an individual student\u2019s grade by up to 10% (one letter grade).<\/p>\n This schedule is subject to change. \u00a0Lecture slides will be posted after each class.<\/p>\n Accommodation Statement<\/b> Academic Honesty Statement<\/b> COMPSCI 592C, 3 Credits, Fall 2018 Time: Fridays 10:10am-12:10pm Location:\u00a0Room\u00a0140, Computer Science Building Instructor:\u00a0Narges Mahyar Email: nmahyar@cs.umass.edu Office:\u00a0Room 322, Computer Science Building Office hours: Wednesdays 2-3pm For discussion forum, in-class activities, deliverables, and grades check out\u00a0Moodle Description Digital Civics is an emerging cross-disciplinary area that explores new ways to utilize technology for promoting public participation … Continue reading Digital Civics<\/span> Description<\/h4>\n
\nThere is no required textbook for the course. Readings will be posted with the associated lectures.<\/p>\n
\nThis course draws on reading lists and syllabi from prior courses on designing community engagement, crowdsourcing, and HCI. The most direct inspiration comes from an undergraduate research group I co-led (along with Steven Dow<\/a>) at University of California San Diego during 2016-2018. The course also borrows from Steven Dow\u2019s course on Crowdsourcing<\/a>, and Chris Le Dantec<\/a>\u2019s course on Designing Community Engagement<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThis course is for junior and senior Computer Science majors who have programming experience by passing either\u00a0COMPSCI 220 or 230 and familiarity with HCI principles. Email me directly,\u00a0If you are passionate about the subject but don\u2019t meet the requirements.<\/p>\nAssignments & Discussions<\/h4>\n
Grading<\/h4>\n
\n30% Paper presentations (~3 papers per semester)
\n10% In-class discussions (1-2 papers per week), and\u00a0activity in online forum
\n40% Final research project
\n20% Final report<\/p>\nSchedule<\/h4>\n
Week 1: Sept 7<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Introduction to Digital Civics<\/a>\r\n\r\nReadings<\/strong>:\r\nVlachokyriakos, Vasillis, et al. Digital civics: Citizen empowerment with and through technology. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2016.\r\n<\/span>\r\nOlivier, Patrick, and Peter Wright.Digital civics: Taking a local turn. interactions 22.4 (2015): 61-63.\r\n\r\nZuckerman, Ethan. Understanding digital civics. My Heart\u2019s in Accra (2012).\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 2: Sept 14\r\n<\/strong>Lecture: Tools and Applications<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:\r\n<\/strong>Team formation\r\n\r\nReadings:<\/strong>\r\nMahyar, Narges, et al. CommunityCrit: Inviting the Public to Improve and Evaluate Urban Design Ideas through Micro-Activities. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018.\r\n\r\nMahyar, Narges, et al. UD Co-Spaces: A Table-Centred Multi-Display Environment for Public Engagement in Urban Design Charrettes. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces. ACM, 2016. \r\n\r\nFoth, Marcus et al. Fixing the city one photo at a time: mobile logging of maintenance requests. Proceedings of 23rd Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference<\/i>. ACM, 2011.\r\n\r\nZimmerman, John, et al. Field trial of tiramisu: crowd-sourcing bus arrival times to spur co-design. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference<\/i>. ACM, 2011.\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 3: Sept 21<\/strong>\r\nLecture: HCI for Digital Civics<\/a> \r\n\r\nIn-class Activitity:\r\n<\/strong>Project ideation\r\n\r\nReadings:<\/strong>\r\nHayes, G.R. The Relationship of Action Research to Human-Computer Interaction. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum, Interact, 2011. \r\n\r\nCarroll, J.M. Community computing as human-computer interaction. Behaviour & Information Technology. 2001.\r\n\r\nBj\u00f6rgvinsson, E. et al. Participatory design and democratizing innovation, Biennial Participatory Design Conference, ACM, 2010.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 4: Sept 28<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Crowdsourcing for Addressing Complex Problems<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:\r\n<\/strong>Project pitches\r\n\r\nReadings:<\/strong> Daren C Brabham. Crowdsourcing the public participation process for planning projects. Planning Theory 8, 2009. Joshua Introne et al. 2013. \r\n\r\nSolving wicked social problems with socio-computational systems. KI-K\u00fcnstliche Intelligenz 27, 2013.\r\n\r\nPaul Andr\u00e9 et ql. Community clustering: Leveraging an academic crowd to form coherent conference sessions. HCOMP, 2013. \r\n\r\nLe Dantec, et al (2015) Planning with Crowdsourced Data: Rhetoric and Representation in Transportation Planning, 2015.<\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Week 5: Oct 5\r\n<\/strong>No lecture-Studio Time\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy: \r\n<\/strong>Project drafts<\/pre>\n
Week 6: Oct 12<\/strong>\r\nNo lecture-Studio Time\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:\r\n<\/strong>Teams will presnent problem-solution statemnets\r\n<\/span>Submit your slides no later than Friday Oct 11 11:55pm<\/pre>\nWeek 7: OCT 19<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Designing for Civics<\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:<\/strong>\r\nSmall group teachning and learning questionaire to obtain students feedback on the course \r\n\r\nFeedback on students presentations \r\n<\/span>\r\nReadings:<\/strong> \r\nTanja Aitamurto and Helene E Landemore. Five design principles for crowdsourced policymaking: Assessing the case of crowdsourced off-road traffic law in Finland, 2015. \r\n\r\nMariam Asad et al. Creating a Sociotechnical API: Designing City-Scale Community Engagement. CHI 2017, 2017. \r\n\r\nJohn M Bryson et al. Designing public participation processes. Public administration review 73, 2013. \r\n\r\nCaron Chess and Kristen Purcell. Public participation and the environment: Do we know what works?, ACS Publications, 1999.\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 8: Oct 26-No <\/strong>class-IEEE VIS 2018 conference<\/b><\/pre>\n
Week 9: Nov 2<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Engagement and Motivation<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:\r\n<\/strong>Feedback on project prototypes \r\n\r\n<\/span>Readings:\r\nBeebeejaun, Yasminah, The participation trap: The limitations of participation for ethnic and racial groups, International Planning Studies, 2006.\r\n\r\nHaichao Zheng, Dahui Li, and Wenhua Hou. 2011. Task design, motivation, and participation in crowdsourcing contests. International Journal of Electronic Commerce 15, 4 (2011), 57\u201388.<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Week 10: Nov 9<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Collaboration, Transparency and Trust<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy<\/strong>:\r\nProject presentation <\/span>\r\n\r\nReadings<\/strong>:\r\nCorbett and C. A. Le Dantec <\/span>Going the Distance: Trust Work for Citizen Participation,\u00a0C<\/span>HI 2018, ACM, 2018. \r\n\r\nCorbett and C. A. Le Dantec The Problem of Community Engagement: Disentangling the Practices of Municipal Government. CHI 2018, ACM, 2018.\r\n\r\n<\/span>Archon Fung and David Weil. 2010. Open government and open society. Open government: Collaboration, transparency, and participation in practice, 2010. \r\n\r\n<\/span>Suzanne J Piotrowski and Gregg G Van Ryzin. 2007. Citizen attitudes toward transparency in local government. The American Review of Public Administration, 2007.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 11: Nov 16<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Collective Innovation<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn-class Activitiy:\r\n<\/strong>Project dicussion and reflection on feedback \r\n\r\n<\/span>Visitor: Amy X. Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\nReadings<\/strong>:\r\nMark Klein. 2011. How to harvest collective wisdom on complex problems: An introduction to the mit deliberatorium. Center for Collective Intelligence working paper, 2011. \r\n\r\nChris Le Dantec. Cover: Design Through Collective Action\/Collective Action Through Design, interactions, 2017. \r\n\r\nEric von Hippel. 2017. Free Innovation by Consumers\u2013How Producers Can Benefit: Consumers\u2019 free innovations represent a potentially valuable resource for industrial innovators. Research-Technology Management, 2017. \r\n\r\nShirky, C. Collective Action and Institutional Challenges, pp. 143\u2010160 in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. New York: Penguin, 2008.<\/span><\/pre>\n
Week 12: Nov 23-No Class-Thanksgiving break<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Week 13: Nov 30<\/strong>\r\nLecture: Wicked Problems and Digital Civics Challenges\r\n\r\nProject deadline:\r\n<\/strong>Wriiten report due \r\n\r\nReadings:<\/strong> \r\nHorst W. Rittel and Melvin M. Webber. Planning problems are wicked. Polity 4, 1973. \r\n\r\nDonald A Norman and Pieter Jan Stappers. DesignX: Complex Sociotechnical Systems. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 2016. \r\n\r\nCharles E Lindblom. 1959. The science of \"muddling through\". Public administration review, 1959. Charles E Lindblom. 1979. Still muddling, not yet through. Public administration review, 1979.<\/span><\/pre>\nWeek 14: Dec 7<\/strong>\r\nFinal Presentations<\/pre>\n
University policies and information<\/h4>\n
\nThe University of Massachusetts Amherst is committed to providing an equal educational opportunity for all students. If you have a documented physical, psychological, or learning disability on file with Disability Services (DS), you may be eligible for reasonable academic accommodations to help you succeed in this course. If you have a documented disability that requires an accommodation, please notify me within the first two weeks of the semester so that we may make appropriate arrangements.<\/p>\n
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