Recommendations to support interaction with broadc

Authors: Rolando MedellinGasque Chris Reed Vicki L Hanson

Publish Date: 2014/12/10

Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-120

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Abstract

Current methods to capture analyse and present the audience participation of broadcast events are increasingly carried out using social media Uptake of such technology tools has so far been poor amongst older adults and it has the worrying effect of excluding the demographic from participation Our work explores whether a common desire to interact with debates can be tapped with technology with a very low barrier to entry to both support better engagement with broadcast debates and encourage greater use of social media This paper describes experiments where older adults interact with a BBC radio debate programme The Moral Maze As a result we obtained common interaction patterns which then are used to define recommendations for softwaresupported interaction with debates based on theories of argumentation Our goal is to combine research on computational models of argument and userdriven research on humancentred computing in a project with the potential for highprofile impact in addressing older adults inclusion in the digital economyThis research was supported by RCUK Grant EP/G066019/1 “RCUK Hub Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy” The authors would like to thank the reviewers the SiDE Research Group at the University of Dundee for their feedback on early versions of this paper and Christine Morgan executive producer of the BBC’s Moral Maze for her support… It is a trick Gambling companies trick people Assertion For example banks were misselling private pensions some time ago attracting people with free commissions How is that different from these people enticing people in to gambling with a 20 pounds free start It’s a misselling of a product Justified Assertion with Argument from Analogy

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