Personalized Voting: The Intersection of Cloud and Mobility

Published

July 21, 2015

Author(s)

Shanee T. Dawkins, Sharon J. Laskowski

Abstract

Current research and development being conducted by the international Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Consortium (GPII) is to create technology for cloud-based accessibility. Using this new technology, users of computer systems can create personal profiles that specify how computer applications should be configured to meet their individual needs. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers have developed a prototype voting support system with enhanced accessibility capabilities based on the cloud-based accessibility work of the GPII, to evaluate the applicability of this new technology in the voting domain. Using this prototype, the Next Generation Voting Platform (NGVP), voters can use a mobile device (e.g. tablet computer) to exchange data with a cloud-based system to download settings in order to configure complex ballot interfaces for marking a blank ballot. The research performed on the NGVP suggests that cloud-based accessibility has the potential to be useful to voters when integrated into mobile ballot-marking systems.

Proceedings Title

3rd International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust

Conference Dates

August 2-7, 2015

Conference Location

Los Angeles, CA

Conference Title

17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Accessibility, Cloud-Based Accessibility, Help America Vote Act, HAVA, Human Factors, Voting Systems, GPII

Citation

Dawkins, S. and Laskowski, S. (2015), Personalized Voting: The Intersection of Cloud and Mobility, 3rd International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Los Angeles, CA, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20376-8_44 (Accessed December 30, 2024)