Citizen Dialogue Kit

Starting Conversations at Places that Matter

The Citizen Dialog Kit (CDK) is a battery-powered interactive public display (e-ink) that allows passers-by to give their opinion on local concerns. CDK allows public institutions or agencies to compose such public polling and install it at a location that corresponds to the issue at hand. This kit was initiated in my PhD study (in 2016), together with my PhD supervisor Andrew Vande Moere and further developed by Jorgos Coenen. I co-coördinated projects with the CDK in Flemish municipalities as Heist-op-den-Berg. CDK is nominated for the award of outstanding participatory infrastructure at the Media Architecture Biënnale 2021.

For more information: see http://citizendialogkit.org/

Publications

Coenen, J., Biedermann, P., Claes, S., Vande Moere, A. (2021) The Stakeholder Perspective on Public Polling Displays. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Communities & Technologies. ACM.

Claes, S., Coenen, J., & Vande Moere, A. (2018). Conveying a civic issue through data via spatially distributed public visualization and polling displays. In Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 597-608). ACM.

Claes S., Coenen J., Vande Moere A. (2017). Empowering Citizens with Spatially Distributed Public Visualization Displays. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Extended Abstracts.. Designing Interactive Systems. Edinburgh, 10-14 June 2017 (pp. 213-217). Acceptance rate: 22%