4 papers
Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Cassandra Overney, Hang Jiang, Urooj Haider +6
Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creat…
BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies
Cassandra Overney, Cassandra Moe, Alvin Chang +1
School districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies -- most prominently, school atte…
Voice to Vision: Enhancing Civic Decision-Making through Co-Designed Data Infrastructure
Maggie Hughes, Cassandra Overney, Ashima Kamra +4
Trust and transparency in civic decision-making processes, like neighborhood planning, are eroding as community members frequently report sending feedback "into a void" without und…
Designing for Constructive Civic Communication: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Community Engagement Processes
Cassandra Overney
Community engagement processes form a critical foundation of democratic governance, yet frequently struggle with resource constraints, sensemaking challenges, and barriers to inclu…