Social Printers: A Physical Social Network for Political Debates

Katerina Gorkovenko; Nick Taylor; Jon Rogers

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025611

Social Printers: A Physical Social Network for Political Debates

Katerina Gorkovenko, Nick Taylor, Jon Rogers

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Abstract

Social Printers are physical devices that create a pseudonymous social network between households during televised political debates. Through studies conducted around the Scottish Parliamentary Election and EU Referendum in 2016, we aimed to understand how physical devices could be used to engage viewers with televised political debates. By displacing the interaction from conventional social media and second screens we observed that the printers were successful in encouraging the participants to share their thoughts and create a personal social experience. Based on the results we discuss potential implications for conventional social media and second screens in the context of political television programs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	2269–2281
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025611
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017

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Conference	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17

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