TY - GEN
T1 - Design imperatives for e-voting as a sociotechnical system
AU - Adeshina, Steve A.
AU - Ojo, Adegboyega
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/23
Y1 - 2014/12/23
N2 - There are a number of past and ongoing research efforts on the development of e-voting systems. These works largely focus on requirements, technical specification and implementation technologies to support different aspects of the elections from registration and verification through balloting to counting and result. A major shortcoming of these studies is their sole focus on technical aspect of e-voting solution without significant attention paid to human and environment factors that arguably determine the successful adoption of such e-voting solutions. This paper addresses this design gap in three steps. First, it provides a conceptualization of e-voting system as a socio-technical system. Second, it elaborates a set of principles to guide a sociotechnical design for e-voting. Third, it provides concrete implications of these principles. The paper concludes on the pragmatics of this approach to e-voting adoption particularly in environment such as Nigeria.
AB - There are a number of past and ongoing research efforts on the development of e-voting systems. These works largely focus on requirements, technical specification and implementation technologies to support different aspects of the elections from registration and verification through balloting to counting and result. A major shortcoming of these studies is their sole focus on technical aspect of e-voting solution without significant attention paid to human and environment factors that arguably determine the successful adoption of such e-voting solutions. This paper addresses this design gap in three steps. First, it provides a conceptualization of e-voting system as a socio-technical system. Second, it elaborates a set of principles to guide a sociotechnical design for e-voting. Third, it provides concrete implications of these principles. The paper concludes on the pragmatics of this approach to e-voting adoption particularly in environment such as Nigeria.
KW - 2011 Nigerian General Elections
KW - Electronic Voting Machines
KW - e-voting
KW - human and environmental factors
KW - sociotechnical System
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84921790347
U2 - 10.1109/ICECCO.2014.6997569
DO - 10.1109/ICECCO.2014.6997569
M3 - Conference Publication
T3 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation, ICECCO 2014
BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation, ICECCO 2014
A2 - Mahamat, Moussa
A2 - Adeshina, Steve A.
A2 - Arreytambe, Tabot
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
CY - Abuja, Nigeria
T2 - 11th International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation, ICECCO 2014
Y2 - 29 September 2014 through 1 October 2014
ER -