Dunwoody city election 2009 in DeKalb County, Georgia - Offices and Incumbents

A detailed follow-up to my entry on district-specific elected offices, this post offers a table of those offices for which DeKalb County residents will be voting in the 2009 City of Dunwoody election.

Doraville city election 2009 in DeKalb County, Georgia - Offices and Incumbents

A detailed follow-up to my entry on district-specific elected offices, this post offers a table of those offices for which DeKalb County residents will be voting in the 2009 City of Doraville election.

Interaction gestalt and the design of aesthetic interactions

Lim, et. al. (2007) apply a visual perception theory (gestalt) to interaction design, defining 11 attributes of interaction.

Problem space & representation in reasoning

A quick, useful distinction when considering information seeking behavior is the place of problem space & representation in reasoning.

A Goal-based Classification of Web Information Tasks

Kellar, Watters, & Shepherd (2006) offer a high-level classification of user’s activities on the web as goal-based information tasks, these could be helpful when structuring personas. The information goals they discover are: information seeking, exchange, maintenance and, perhaps, monitoring.

The internet and the 2008 election (Pew)

This report highlights information seeking on the internet, which is becoming an increasingly-used source for voter information. Unfortunately, at the moment, the internet is most useful for national elections. Statewide and, especially, local election information is still difficult to locate on the internet. Local voter advocacy groups would be well-served to focus on sharing their local voter information in the formats and customized for the tasks mentioned below.