CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public- 20 years of speakers
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Beth Noveck
New York Law School Designing Digital Democratic Institutions: Legal Code Meets Software Code May 5, 2006 We are witnessing the phenomenon of decentralized groups emerging without formal organizations to solve complex social problems and take action in the world together. In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. New visual and social technologies are making it possible for people not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. This presentation will focus on the ways technology design enables more effective forms of collective action, focusing particularly on the emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes together. By looking at several examples, including the design of "Peer to Patent" and the Cairns projects (http://dotank.nyls.edu), this presentation will address the discipline of digital institution design that melds legal code and software code to develop legal and political institutions embedded in technology. We will talk across disciplines about what it means to design for collaborative communities. In so doing, we will discuss not only how technology is used in our democracy but how technology, and the interface, in particular, changes what we mean by democracy today.
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