EDV investigated how British citizens experienced the televised Prime Ministerial Debates in 2010, with a view to understanding how the 2015 debates can be experienced in new ways to give greater insight and engagement. These requirements inform the use of computational approaches to model and visualise the debates, through novel replay interfaces. The team brings a unique combination of Information Science, Political Communication and Design (University of Leeds) with Computer-Supported Argument Modelling & Visualisation (The Open University). Learn more…
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Rethinking Debates project kicks off with full-length feature on EDV
Earlier this week, EDV was the subject of a full-length feature in the Rethinking Debates project. This is the first of a global series of reports on the impact of technology on the electoral process, launched by Civic Hall, a US-based community centre for the world’s civic innovators. After interviewing EDV's PI Stephen Coleman...
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EDV at ECA Lisbon 2015
Last week, I attended the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, 9-12 June 2015, in Lisbon, Portugal. EDV contributed a paper on our analysis of Fair Play: a semi-automatic method to...
EDV at ACM TVX 2015
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