Citizen Science Opportunities in Volunteer-Based Online Experiments

Oliveira, Nigini; Jun, Eunice; Reinecke, Katharina

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025473

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“…The interface between 'human sensors-behaviour' and hydrology represents a cross-cutting topic that requires transdisciplinarity, where natural, social and computer science experts should join efforts. In particular, we see the behavioural and cognitive sciences, focusing on motivation, learning and communications, as relevant to this theme (Oliveira et al, 2017). Moreover, gaming technologies, which can integrate advanced hydrodynamic simulations (Zadick et al, 2016, Jeschke et al, 2018, are also expected to provide transdisciplinary testing environments and favour the engagement of non-traditional audiences (Newman et al, 2012, Morschheuser et al, 2016, Radchuk et al, 2017, Aubert et al, 2018, Haan and Voort, 2018.…”

Section: Theme 2 Human Sensors and Behaviour Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

Nardi

Cudennec

Abrate

et al. 2021

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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Section: Theme 2 Human Sensors and Behaviour Analyticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

Nardi

Cudennec

Abrate

et al. 2021

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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“…Most commonly among the top 20 papers with most participants were analyses of behavioral log data, surveys, or (very few) experiments conducted on social networking sites (8/20 papers, e.g., [10,54]), on other online services, such as on online education platforms (e.g., [24]), or on online game sites (e.g., [54]). Some of the increase in participant diversity can also be attributed to studies that have been conducted on online platforms such as Mechanical Turk (e.g., [6]) or LabintheWild (e.g., [41,65]).…”

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How WEIRD is CHI?

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Computer technology is often designed in technology hubs in Western countries, invariably making it “WEIRD”, because it is based on the intuition, knowledge, and values of people who are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Developing technology that is universally useful and engaging requires knowledge about members of WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies alike. In other words, it requires us, the CHI community, to generate this knowledge by studying representative participant samples. To find out to what extent CHI participant samples are from Western societies, we analyzed papers published in the CHI proceedings between 2016-2020. Our findings show that 73% of CHI study findings are based on Western participant samples, representing less than 12% of the world’s population. Furthermore, we show that most participant samples at CHI tend to come from industrialized, rich, and democratic countries with generally highly educated populations. Encouragingly, recent years have seen a slight increase in non-Western samples and those that include several countries. We discuss suggestions for further broadening the international representation of CHI participant samples.

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“…However, these games solve only specific problems and are tightly coupled with volunteers' human computation tasks. In the last decade, the importance of games in human computation (volunteer thinking) has been confirmed by many studies [37], [38], [52]. There have been a number of human computation games that have been implemented to solve some complex problems [39], for example, the Wildfire Wally game was designed to solve graph search problems [40].…”

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A Collaborative Citizen Science Platform for Real-Time Volunteer Computing and Games

Yadav

Charalampidis

Cohen

et al. 2018

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.

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Volunteer computing (VC) or distributed computing projects are common in the citizen cyber-science (CCS) community and present extensive opportunities for scientists to make use of computing power donated by volunteers to undertake large-scale scientific computing tasks. Volunteer computing is generally a non-interactive process for those contributing computing resources to a project whereas volunteer thinking (VT) or distributed thinking, allows volunteers to participate interactively in citizen cyber-science projects to solve human computation tasks. In this paper we describe the integration of three tools, the Virtual Atom Smasher (VAS) game developed by CERN, LiveQ, a job distribution middleware, and CitizenGrid, an online platform for hosting and providing computation to CCS projects. This integration demonstrates the combining of volunteer computing and volunteer thinking to help address the scientific and educational goals of games like VAS. The paper introduces the three tools and provides details of the integration process along with further potential usage scenarios for the resulting platform.

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Citizen Science Opportunities in Volunteer-Based Online Experiments

Cited by 20 publications

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Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

Citizens AND HYdrology (CANDHY): conceptualizing a transdisciplinary framework for citizen science addressing hydrological challenges

How WEIRD is CHI?

A Collaborative Citizen Science Platform for Real-Time Volunteer Computing and Games

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