The article, titled ‘Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens’, explores the complexities of Digital Participatory Budgeting (PB), a democratic tool for resource allocation in cities. The researchers studied various voting and aggregation methods within digital PB and their implications on fairness, legitimacy, and cognitive load. The findings reveal how design choices profoundly influence collective decision-making, citizen perceptions, and outcome fairness. The insights obtained from this study can be applied to improve human-computer interaction, mechanism design, and computational social choice, contributing to the development of fairer and more transparent digital PB systems.
Publication date: 5 Oct 2023
Project Page: arXiv:2310.03501v1
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.03501
