TY - GEN
T1 - The Potential of Quadratic Voting for Cohousing Communities A Situated Design Case Study
AU - Karpinski, Tara
AU - van Dartel, Michel
AU - de Waal, Martijn
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025/4/26
Y1 - 2025/4/26
N2 - Quadratic voting (QV) is a means of making collective decisions that include and reflect the intensity of individual voter preferences. While QV has mainly been applied to legislative case studies, it is our conjecture that QV also holds potential for decision-making processes taking place in cohousing communities. To explore this conjecture, we conducted a situated design case study in which we introduced QV into the decision-making process of the Community Land Trust H-buurt, Amsterdam (NL). Our case study includes four situated actions taken from an embedded position in the community, and yielded data ranging from screenshots, sketch notes and photos, to a QV tool, ballot issues and voting data. In this paper, we describe our case study in more detail, report and discuss our results, and present our conclusion that cohousing is ripe for QV as well as recommendations to operationalize QV in this domain.
AB - Quadratic voting (QV) is a means of making collective decisions that include and reflect the intensity of individual voter preferences. While QV has mainly been applied to legislative case studies, it is our conjecture that QV also holds potential for decision-making processes taking place in cohousing communities. To explore this conjecture, we conducted a situated design case study in which we introduced QV into the decision-making process of the Community Land Trust H-buurt, Amsterdam (NL). Our case study includes four situated actions taken from an embedded position in the community, and yielded data ranging from screenshots, sketch notes and photos, to a QV tool, ballot issues and voting data. In this paper, we describe our case study in more detail, report and discuss our results, and present our conclusion that cohousing is ripe for QV as well as recommendations to operationalize QV in this domain.
KW - Cohousing
KW - Community Land Trust
KW - Decision Making
KW - Quadratic Voting
KW - Situated Design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105005754321
U2 - 10.1145/3706599.3706671
DO - 10.1145/3706599.3706671
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105005754321
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI EA 2025 - Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2025
Y2 - 26 April 2025 through 1 May 2025
ER -