Partners Tour de France, Electro Magnetic Field
VoxBox aims to turn the task of filling out a questionnaire individually at an event into a pleasurable and engaging experience of giving feedback that can be done by individuals as well as groups together. VoxBox is a tangible questionnaire machine that allows event attendees to share their views using a range of physical sliders, dials and buttons. They can then see how their views compare to those of others at the event by looking at real-time data visualisations presented on the other side of the device. VoxBox was designed by considering traditional questionnaire structure and limitations, and employs deliberate strategies to encourage participation and completion, show progress throughout the survey, group similar questions, gather answers to open and closed questions, and connect answering and seeing results more closely. VoxBox was deployed in the wild at two London fan parks for the Tour De France, a one-day Digital Democracy event in Cardiff, and a hacker festival in Milton Keynes during the summer of 2014. Over 200 people used the VoxBox at these four events, from whom feedback on the events was collected through the VoxBox, and data was gathered on the use of VoxBox through user observations. Following these events the research team have been overwhelmed with requests for the VoxBox to be used in different venues and events, for example to gather feedback on student open days, to evaluate an interactive play for children, and to gather census data.