From Buttons to Bots: Exploring the Impact of Enhanced Features in Voting Advice Applications on Desktop PCs and Smartphones

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Voters using Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) often struggle with comprehension issues, leading to satisficing behavior. Conversational Agent VAAs (CAVAAs) help users of VAAs to understand the political attitude statements further; in these tools, a chatbot (CA) has been added to which users can address comprehension questions. While early research shows various positive effects of CAVAAs , these studies have only made comparisons with a basic VAA without supplementary information and not with an enhanced VAAs (VAA+), which include clickable buttons in the web-environment . The current research, therefore, compares four VAA versions: a basic VAA, a VAA+, a CAVAA, and a CAVAA+. Two studies are reported: in the first studies participants work with one of the tools on a desktop pc; in the second study they do so on a mobile device.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/RHAEJ6
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/RHAEJ6
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Creator Kamoen, Naomi ORCID logo; Liebrecht, Christine ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Kamoen, Naomi; Tilburg University; DataverseNL
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Prodemos
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
OpenAccess false
Contact Kamoen, Naomi (Tilburg University)
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