Elena Sánchez‐Nielsen and Carolina Martín‐Vázquez
their development and performance. Some of the example scenarios of PbP uDebate involving moderated responses from facilitators for each AI phases and corresponding responses from participants are shown in Table 3:
Table 3: Example scenarios of AI based‐debate in PbP uDebate on immigrant integration
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Moderation based‐example |
Response from participants |
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Thank you! Do you know of any |
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experiences that take advantage |
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of these ways of seeing the |
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world? |
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Search for resources
Construction of goals
Design of proposals
Performance
3. Research design
Thank you! What if this happened? What would you notice?
Thank you! How can we promote, among all the various aspects, getting more knowledge, experiences, views, and culture to improve the society in which we live? Thank you! To date, how can we summarize the work carried out by all?
“ The key point is that if they are qualified enough for the work they do and have enthusiasm and motivation to improve their work, it will result in overall efficiency for the economy of the company and in the country where the individual is working”“ It would create a chain of functions that support local work to develop better the global one. With a good understanding and knowledge base, we would have concerned citizens with a common cause and with greater cultural richness in my region and country …”“ By studying and not limiting ourselves, making ourselves more competent, we will cease to fear that a skilled immigrant can get the most important positions in our country. Therefore I believe that diversity is a natural good that makes us grow as people and as a society”
“ Through the participatory work developed in Arona municipality, a driving group has been consolidated with a shared goal: Strengthen social cohesion and coexistence, by means of optimizing human and cultural diversity through citizens’ participation. With this aim, the following lemma has been proposed: El Fraile for all! An action plan has also been developed, which is being carried out by diverse working committees related to different topics …”
In this section, the potential of using appreciative inquiries in the uDebate tool is tested in the Spanish pilot. Two indicators are defined to analyze the utility of the AI model:( 1) the participation that questions are able to induce and,( 2) the types of narratives generated by users.
3.1 Data collection
A sample frame with 325 users who posted at least one comment over a five‐month period( from March 2012 to July 2012) in the Spanish debate section at both an EU and national level was analyzed. The responses from the users to 18 questions were evaluated, nine of which corresponded to non‐appreciative questions, and the rest were characterized by appreciative inquiries.
3.2 Measures
3.2.1 Independent variables Inquiry Type: This independent variable corresponds to an appreciative or non‐appreciative inquiry.
3.2.2 Dependent variables
The dependent variables are:( 1) number of responses, and( 2) characteristics of the responses to the questions of the debate. Therefore, the following indicators were defined:
• Indicators for quantifying responses: the quantification of responses is measured by the active and passive participation. Active participation is assessed by the number of posts in the debate, while passive participation is evaluated by the number of views of visitors who consulted or read the discussions.
• Indicators for qualitative assessment of responses: this indicator is assessed according to three different dimensions. Each dimension has two associated categories.
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