Widescope -一个在网络上进行严肃对话的社交平台
Widescope - A social platform for serious conversations on the Web
摘要：
有几个网络平台，人们用来互动和交流思想，如社交网络，如Facebook，Twitter和谷歌+;问答网站，如Quora和雅虎！答案;和无数的独立论坛。然而，缺乏促进讨论复杂问题的平台，在这些平台上，意见分歧的人们可以利用共享的知识库轻松地将自己的观点合理化，并利用知识库实现共同的目标，例如达成双方都能接受的妥协。在本文中，作为第一步，我们提出了Widescope，一种新型的协作网络平台，用于催化美国联邦和州预算辩论的共同理解，以帮助用户就所涉及的复杂问题达成数据驱动的共识。它汇总了来自不同预算（即过去、现在和拟议预算）的不同财务数据源，并使用交互式可视化呈现统一的界面。它利用分布式协作来鼓励思想探索和辩论。用户可以从头开始提出预算，支持现有的建议，比较不同的预算，并与其他人在实时的。我们假设，这样一个平台可以使人们的想法和意见更加接近。为此，我们从一个简单的试点实验中提出了初步证据，使用三元投票（我们也正式分析，以表明这比热或不投票更好），6组用户中有5组有不同的观点（保守派与自由派）达成共识，同时旨在使用Widescope将赤字减半。我们相信像Widescope这样的工具可以对其他复杂的、数据驱动的社会问题产生积极的影响。
英文摘要：
There are several web platforms that people use to interact and exchange ideas, such as social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+; Q&A sites like Quora and Yahoo! Answers; and myriad independent fora. However, there is a scarcity of platforms that facilitate discussion of complex subjects where people with divergent views can easily rationalize their points of view using a shared knowledge base, and leverage it towards shared objectives, e.g. to arrive at a mutually acceptable compromise. In this paper, as a first step, we present Widescope, a novel collaborative web platform for catalyzing shared understanding of the US Federal and State budget debates in order to help users reach data-driven consensus about the complex issues involved. It aggregates disparate sources of financial data from different budgets (i.e. from past, present, and proposed) and presents a unified interface using interactive visualizations. It leverages distributed collaboration to encourage exploration of ideas and debate. Users can propose budgets ab-initio, support existing proposals, compare between different budgets, and collaborate with others in real time. We hypothesize that such a platform can be useful in bringing people's thoughts and opinions closer. Toward this, we present preliminary evidence from a simple pilot experiment, using triadic voting (which we also formally analyze to show that is better than hot-or-not voting), that 5 out of 6 groups of users with divergent views (conservatives vs liberals) come to a consensus while aiming to halve the deficit using Widescope. We believe that tools like Widescope could have a positive impact on other complex, data-driven social issues.
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