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Participating in Public: Municipal Software for Online Dialogue and Decision-making
May 6, 2020 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PDT
Arthur Smid
Arthur Smid
About the Speaker
Arthur Smid is a community organizer and communications specialist living in Portland, Oregon. His research into participatory political processes led to volunteering with the Code for America brigade network in Eugene and Portland. Active as a citizen lobbyist for progressive policy, he is an advocate for open source software and government digital services. He wrote a novel about software developers—available at arthursmid.com.
Travis Kriplean
Travis Kriplean
About the Speaker
Travis Kriplean has been designing and building communication systems to help people think better together, first in academia (HCI/CSCW) and more recently as an entrepreneur and independent researcher. His work expands on the design insight that online communications are easy to speak into, but difficult to listen through. By designing unique ways to actively listen, we can improve our online dialogue. ConsiderIt is his most well known creation, contact him to learn how it can help your community: about.me/travis.kriplean.
2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff
Smart Stuff
Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented InteractionsThis year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.
AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.
This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.
Please note: CHIFOO wants to make sure that each meeting is a great experience for everyone. If you need an accommodation to help you better enjoy CHIFOO meetings and events please let our CHIFOO Programs Chair know how we can help a few days prior to CHIFOO event.
2019 Speakers and Events
Sanda Erdelez
Sanda Erdelez
Interim Dean and Professor at the Simmons University in Boston, MA
As an information scientist, Sanda Erdelez has spent more than 30 years researching information encountering (IE), also known as the serendipity of bumping into interesting and useful information.
Website: https://sandaerdelez.com
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Participating in Public
Municipal Software for Online Dialogue and Decision-making
What happens when a city creates a public platform for allocating $100 million dollars? People start to think about their neighborhoods differently. Learn about participatory political processes for decision-making and resource allocation in Reykjavík and Madrid. And with an authoritarian neighbor to press against, Taiwan created an open and transparent deliberative process for people to shape legislation. Arthur Smid will show us the municipal software created to support these processes. These open source projects have already been adapted by American cities. We’ll consider how design can facilitate consensus rather than division. Let’s explore this together and build the practices and software to support democracy.
Portland-based creator Travis Kriplean will share Consider.it, open source software he made for online dialogue. Consider.it helps communities by visualizing what people think and why, enabling large groups to civilly and efficiently align for action and/or identify significant points of departure. It has been used for civic deliberations hosted by the City of Seattle, participatory strategic planning by the Mozilla Foundation, decentralized governance by open source communities, and critical thinking in K12 education.
There is a video of this event. You must be a member and signed in to see CHIFOO videos.
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Speakers: Travis Kriplean | Arthur Smid <br>{start_date} at {start_time} -{end_time}
{venue:name}
Participating in Public
Municipal Software for Online Dialogue and Decision-making
What happens when a city creates a public platform for allocating $100 million dollars? People start to think about their neighborhoods differently. Learn about participatory political processes for decision-making and resource allocation in Reykjavík and Madrid. And with an authoritarian neighbor to press against, Taiwan created an open and transparent deliberative process for people to shape legislation. Arthur Smid will show us the municipal software created to support these processes. These open source projects have already been adapted by American cities. We’ll consider how design can facilitate consensus rather than division. Let’s explore this together and build the practices and software to support democracy.
Portland-based creator Travis Kriplean will share Consider.it, open source software he made for online dialogue. Consider.it helps communities by visualizing what people think and why, enabling large groups to civilly and efficiently align for action and/or identify significant points of departure. It has been used for civic deliberations hosted by the City of Seattle, participatory strategic planning by the Mozilla Foundation, decentralized governance by open source communities, and critical thinking in K12 education.
There is a video of this event. You must be a member and signed in to see CHIFOO videos.
2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff
Smart Stuff
Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented InteractionsThis year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.
AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.
This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.
Please note: CHIFOO wants to make sure that each meeting is a great experience for everyone. If you need an accommodation to help you better enjoy CHIFOO meetings and events please let our CHIFOO Programs Chair know how we can help a few days prior to CHIFOO event.
2019 Speakers and Events
Leo Frishberg
Leo Frishberg
Director of User Experience at athenahealth
Leo Frishberg currently serves as Director, User Experience, at athenahealth and is an active member of the User Experience community both locally and internationally. For over 20 years, he has served on the board of CHIFOO, helping transition the organization’s operations, mission and brand. He has garnered an international reputation as a thought provoking practitioner through his speaking engagements and his publications on the topics of UX architecture, design and research.
Leo’s career in design has spanned over 30 years, beginning with his architectural (bricks-and-mortar) practice in the mid-80s. In 1984 he founded Phase II, his consulting practice. In the 90s he engaged in several entrepreneurial startups. Since 2004, Leo has held leadership and management positions at Tektronix, Intel, The Home Depot Quote Center, and currently, athenahealth.
Leo’s experience in both non-profit and for-profit enterprises focus on innovation. Specifically, he applies user-centered practices and design thinking to find new market opportunities. Recognized as a provocative speaker, Leo entertains organizations large and small on a variety of topics, including: the value of being wrong, intelligent failure, applied design thinking, product life cycle management, user-centered innovation and the influence of time travel on design. Most recently, Leo has been facilitating discussions around his design-research method, Presumptive Design, detailed in his book of the same name (co-authored with Charles Lambdin), published in 2016.
In addition to his Bachelors in Environmental Planning and Masters in Architecture, Leo has been awarded six patents (all within the area of user experience and information visualization). Leo is a Certified SCRUM Product Owner and is a California Licensed Architect.
Leo and his family call Portland, OR their home where they enjoy each other’s company and can be spotted tasting an Oregon Pinot every once in a while.
If you want to hear an extensive interview with Leo about his career journey, he cringes at the thought of you listening to this podcast on Fail Faster.
2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff
Smart Stuff
Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented InteractionsThis year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures.
AI seems to be everywhere. It is an acronym fraught with implications and possibilities. We have an idea of what it means, but how do our smart devices know what we want? Who taught my car to parallel park? Is my home spying on me? It’s all very confusing. This year CHIFOO explores the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence and augmented interactions bring to our futures. We will take a deep dive into how smart devices, cars, and homes are changing our culture and even us, while exploring the interactions this new tech makes possible. The possibilities are exciting, inspiring, and at times unexpected. As professionals dealing with communication, interaction, and results we are at the center of this vortex of change, given the charge to provide solid solutions for an uncertain world. We are empowered by these new tools yet challenged by them as well. As the ones responsible for using it all, we must get up to speed on it all quickly.
This speaker series will explore the various ways these themes are playing out in our lives now while determining the potential for the future by examining specific applications of each. By understanding more about what the potential of how to best use the tools, we can provide better solutions in our own work, and create a more friendly world. Please join us for this exciting series.
Please note: CHIFOO wants to make sure that each meeting is a great experience for everyone. If you need an accommodation to help you better enjoy CHIFOO meetings and events please let our CHIFOO Programs Chair know how we can help a few days prior to CHIFOO event.
2019 Speakers and Events
Sanda Erdelez
Sanda Erdelez
Interim Dean and Professor at the Simmons University in Boston, MA
As an information scientist, Sanda Erdelez has spent more than 30 years researching information encountering (IE), also known as the serendipity of bumping into interesting and useful information.
Website: https://sandaerdelez.com