2024/09/12 by Maike Behrendt, Behrendt, Maike, Stefan Sylvius Wagner +5
Engineering · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Smart Cities and Technologies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2409.07780
openalex publication_date 2024/09/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Online spaces provide individuals with the opportunity to engage in discussions on important topics and make collective decisions, regardless of their geographic location or time zone. However, without adequate support and careful design, such discussions often suffer from a lack of structure and civility in the exchange of opinions. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a promising avenue for helping both participants and organizers in managing large-scale online participation processes. This paper introduces an extension of adhocracy+, a large-scale open-source participation platform. Our extension features two AI-supported debate modules designed to improve discussion quality and foster participant interaction. In a large-scale user study we examined the effects and usability of both modules. We report our findings in this paper. The extended platform is available at https://github.com/mabehrendt/discuss2.0.