Mobile PICOLA: Design and Implementation Issues

Miso Kim
School of Design, Carnegie Mellon

Sam Zaiss
HCII, Carnegie Mellon

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Abstract
** Updated from last submission**

"Mobile PICOLA: Design and Implementation Issues"
Presentation and Demonstration (required time: 20 minutes)

Submitted by

Miso Kim,
Master of Design in Communication Planning and Information Design, Carnegie
Mellon
Master of Design Candidate in Interaction Design, Carnegie Mellon

PICOLA (Public Informed Citizen Online Assembly) is a fully integrated,
multimedia online tool specifically designed to complement Jim Fishkin's
protocols for deliberative polling. Initial design and development has
begun on designing an interface that will bring PICOLA to the mobile phone
and PDA environment

Mobile devices will add usability and greater accessibility to PICOLA. The
Mobile Internet frees us from the limitations of time and place, even more
than the land-based Internet operating on a PC. And the fact that mobile
phones/PDAs are becoming attached to a person's identity may lead to new
ways of connecting an individual to the public.

The presenter will discuss the value of adding telephonic capabilities to
PICOLA, particularly in relationship with Howard Rheingold's recent study
of the Mobile Internet ("Smart Mobs: the Next Social Revolution"). The
presentation will also demonstrate the design process, features, and
further direction of Mobile PICOLA development.

Further information on Project PICOLA can be found at
caae.phil.cmu.edu/picola/

Miso Kim
School of Design
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Home: 412.422.0103
Office: 412.268.4917
email: misok@andrew.cmu.edu