Improving candidate-based voting advice application design

Voting advice applications (VAAs) seek to strengthen democracy by assisting voters in voting-related decision-making. VAAs have become popular tools across many European democracies and their usage has been linked to real life electoral consequences. As VAA usage has become more prominent, this has...

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Autor principal:	Veikko Isotalo
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN FI SV
Publicado:	Informaatiotutkimuksen yhdistys ITY ry 2021
Materias:	voting advice applications [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p21814] candidate-based VAA VAA design Finland design science research Bibliography. Library science. Information resources Z
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:05665c5a72cc49b886ca5aab8536f2be2021-11-06T16:06:33ZImproving candidate-based voting advice application design10.23978/inf.1072151797-91371797-9129https://doaj.org/article/05665c5a72cc49b886ca5aab8536f2be2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journal.fi/inf/article/view/107215https://doaj.org/toc/1797-9137https://doaj.org/toc/1797-9129 Voting advice applications (VAAs) seek to strengthen democracy by assisting voters in voting-related decision-making. VAAs have become popular tools across many European democracies and their usage has been linked to real life electoral consequences. As VAA usage has become more prominent, this has also sparked research interest toward VAA design. However, most of the VAA design research has been conducted on party-based VAAs, whereas candidate-based VAAs that are in use in countries such as Finland, Denmark and Switzerland have been largely ignored. Moreover, research on overall VAA designs, in comparison to individual VAA design elements, is non-existent. This article discusses interdependencies of VAA design choices and proposes overall VAA designs that can improve existing Finnish candidate-based VAA designs, encouraging Finnish VAA developers to update their designs. Future research should develop and test the suggested designs, as more research on the topic is needed, especially regarding VAA user experiences. Veikko IsotaloInformaatiotutkimuksen yhdistys ITY ryarticlevoting advice applications [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p21814]candidate-based VAAVAA designFinlanddesign science researchBibliography. Library science. Information resourcesZENFISVInformaatiotutkimus, Vol 40, Iss 3 (2021)
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spellingShingle	voting advice applications [http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p21814] candidate-based VAA VAA design Finland design science research Bibliography. Library science. Information resources Z Veikko Isotalo Improving candidate-based voting advice application design
description	Voting advice applications (VAAs) seek to strengthen democracy by assisting voters in voting-related decision-making. VAAs have become popular tools across many European democracies and their usage has been linked to real life electoral consequences. As VAA usage has become more prominent, this has also sparked research interest toward VAA design. However, most of the VAA design research has been conducted on party-based VAAs, whereas candidate-based VAAs that are in use in countries such as Finland, Denmark and Switzerland have been largely ignored. Moreover, research on overall VAA designs, in comparison to individual VAA design elements, is non-existent. This article discusses interdependencies of VAA design choices and proposes overall VAA designs that can improve existing Finnish candidate-based VAA designs, encouraging Finnish VAA developers to update their designs. Future research should develop and test the suggested designs, as more research on the topic is needed, especially regarding VAA user experiences.
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title	Improving candidate-based voting advice application design
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Improving candidate-based voting advice application design

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