Comments on: Polling in Wonderland

By: Summary of +Spaces Development in Wonderland « Wonderblog

Summary of +Spaces Development in Wonderland « Wonderblog — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:51:37 +0000

[...] three applications in Open Wonderland (OWL) by which citizens can be engaged in policy discussion: polls, debates and role-play simulations. In the earlier blog posts, I focused on the way in which the [...]

By: Role-play Simulations in Wonderland « Wonderblog

Role-play Simulations in Wonderland « Wonderblog — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:44:06 +0000

[...] about the +Spaces project, Bernard described how we were using Open Wonderland (OWL) to host polls and debates, so that citizens could express their views on potential government policies. In this [...]

By: Students test virtual debating environment – Hypergrid Business

Students test virtual debating environment – Hypergrid Business — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:10:51 +0000

[...] of years ago, I described how we were using the Open Wonderland virtual environment platform to host polls for users to express their opinions about proposed governmental policies, as part of [...]

By: Debating in Wonderland « Wonderblog

Debating in Wonderland « Wonderblog — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:30:09 +0000

[...] an earlier blog posting about the +Spaces project, I described how we were using Wonderland to host polls for users to express their opinions about proposed governmental policies. In the next stage of the [...]

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:35:17 +0000

One thing I like about the public visible poll is the ability to change your mind after you’ve voted, which seems more difficult with the other approaches. Scalability is more of an issue with the carpet – the carpet size determines how many avatars can vote (well, it would if avatars collided with each other.)

What happens if you walk off the carpet? Does that remove your vote? How do you call an end to the vote?

I think you need a simple yes/no instead of a percentage option, where the center line demarcates between the choices.

It might be interesting for avatars to be able to raise different colored flags to indicate their vote visually – you’d make voting a gesture, perhaps triggered by clicking on an in-world or on-HUD voting interface.

It’ll be interesting to see which approach you ultimately choose.

By: Michal Jacovi

Michal Jacovi — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:27:42 +0000

Bernard, Michael,
For the invisible/public poll, I can think of demonstrators who wear a shirt in a color that supports their opinion (we see this in real life – Thailand, Brussels), so it can fit VW too.
The act of voting here is invisible, but the opinion is public.

In SNSs, actions are invisible (you don’t know that I write a new status or visit a new group to join it, before I actually publish the results). So this is an invisible/public action.