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Kysi – Your vote matters

Kysi is a group-project by Elín Edda Þorsteinsdóttir, Daði Vikar Davíðsson, Valgerður Gestsdóttir, Kristina Hilse which was developed at the Listaháskóli Ìslands. Our goal is to animate more people to vote, especially the young ones. We want to show how important it is that especially the young people go and vote.

Our target group are teenagers between 14 and 22 years, next voters (14-17) and first voters (18-22), but all others can use it as well. We chose them because young people vote the fewest but they are the future. We want to show them what they can change and what kind of impact they can have for the election, by kind of a game.
We chose a mobile website because the target group would mainly look at it on their phone, but there should also be a "normal" website. The website would be releaved the day after the election.

What is the website about?
Kysi shows how many of each age-group had voted in the last election. You can switch the controllers to see what happened if several age-groups would had voted more or less. It should influence the voters to go and vote the next time. We use different visualisations so everyone can feel attracted. The website should visualise more the feeling of the results and less the numbers.

How does it work?
- the starting page explains what the homepage is about
- by moving the controllers (up=100% of the agegroup voted, down=0% of the agegroup voted) you influence how many of the agegroups voted and see the outcoming result just above
- you can swipe through the visualisations
1. feeling of the two strongest parties in a version of the political compass
2. results in the "normal" bar chart with exact numbers
3. simple visualisation of the people in the parliament
4. map of the parliament, more detailed
5. the parties who will probably form the government
- the bar below gives also a feeling of the percents of the parties
- you can share your new results with your friends through the sharing button above
- and refresh the site to come to the starting point again
- if you need more information like which colour which party symbolises, you what to lnow the exact numbers of the real result of the election or see how the agegroups voted: you can push up the arrowat the bottom und move it back down to return to the interactive part of the homepage

Kysi – Your vote matters
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Kysi – Your vote matters

Kysi is a group-project by Elín Edda Þorsteinsdóttir, Daði Vikar Davíðsson, Valgerður Gestsdóttir, Kristina Hilse which was developed at the List Read More

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