Autonomous agents that respond intelligentlyin dyoamic, complex environments need to be both reactive and deliberative. Reactive systems have traditionally fared better than deliberative planers in such environments, but are often hard to code and inflexible. To fill in some of these gaps, we propose a hybrid system that exploits the strengths of both reactive and deliberative systems. We demon...

In 1971 Churchman drew our attention to the importance of epistemology for information systems by modeling five types of ‘inquiring’ systems based on the evolving forms of epistemology. However, the evolution of epistemology did not end there. The most recent advance is the deliberative model. In this paper we clarify and strengthen the concept of deliberative communication as a form of deliber...

We investigate supporting higher quality deliberations in online contexts by supporting what we call "social deliberative skills," including perspective-taking, meta-dialog, and reflecting on one's biases. We report on an experiment with college students engaged in online dialogues about controversial topics, using discussion forum software with "reflective tools" designed to support social del...

For the last two decades, deliberative democracy has been intensively debated within political science and other related fields. Only recently, deliberation research has experienced a computational turn. In this paper, we present a linguistic and visual framework for the study of deliberative communication. The framework includes a range of visual analytics approaches to support research into d...

In its “deliberative turn,” the field of science and technology studies (STS) has strongly advocated opening up decision-making processes around to more perspectives knowledges. While theory democracy underpinning this is rarely explicitly addressed, language ideas used are often drawn from deliberative democracy. Using case synthetic biology Responsible Research Innovation (RRI), paper looks a...

This chapter introduces a ten-step path for planning, implementing, and evaluating citizen participation process. It provides guidance on how to implement each step, details eight participatory methods from information deliberative processes. illustrates the steps with good practices OECD member partner countries.

This chapter reviews empirical evidence bearing on the design of online forums for deliberative civic engagement. Dimensions of design are defined for different aspects of the deliberation: its purpose, the target population, the spatiotemporal distance separating participants, the communication medium, and the deliberative process to be followed. After a brief overview of criteria for evaluati...