Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge

Sui, Daniel Z.; Elwood, Sarah; Goodchild, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2

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“…The aim was to make use of VGI data that were generated by volunteers for reasons other than research, often related to self-promotion or social reward e.g. to monitor personal health performance and activities, or to publically share data on everyday lives and experiences (Feick & Roche, 2013;Oksanen, Bergman, Sainio, & Westerholm, 2015). Yet, to avoid bias towards users of such technologies only, participants could equally draw their route over an Open Street Map basemap.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Doherty et al, 2014;Korpilo et al, 2017a;Santos et al, 2016). Moreover, the rapidly advancing fields of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) acknowledge citizens as valuable source of knowledge as they become more actively engaged in the use and production of geographic information (Brown & Reed, 2009;Brown & Kyttä, 2014;Feick & Roche, 2013;Goodchild, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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More than A to B: Understanding and managing visitor spatial behaviour in urban forests using public participation GIS

Korpilo

Virtanen

Saukkonen³

et al. 2018

Journal of Environmental Management

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Planning and management needs up-to-date, easily-obtainable and accurate information on the spatial and social aspects of visitor behaviour in order to balance human use and impacts, and protection of natural resources in public parks. We used a web-based public participation GIS (PPGIS) approach to gather citizen data on visitor behaviour in Helsinki's Central Park in order to aid collaborative spatial decision-making. The study combined smartphone GPS tracking, route drawing and a questionnaire to examine differences between user groups in their use of formal trails, off-trail behaviour and the motivations that affect it. In our sample (n = 233), different activity types were associated with distinctive spatial patterns and potential extent of impacts. The density mapping and statistical analyses indicated three types of behaviour: predominantly on or close to formal trails (runners and cyclists), spatially concentrated off-trail behaviour confined to a few informal paths (mountain bikers), and dispersed off-trail use pattern (walkers and dog walkers). Across all user groups, off-trail behaviour was mainly motivated by positive attraction towards the environment such as scenic view, exploration, and viewing flora and fauna. Study findings lead to several management recommendations that were presented to city officials. These include reducing dispersion and the spatial extent of trampling impacts by encouraging use of a limited number of well-established informal paths away from sensitive vegetation and protected habitats.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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More than A to B: Understanding and managing visitor spatial behaviour in urban forests using public participation GIS

Korpilo

Virtanen

Saukkonen³

et al. 2018

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…It is understood from various studies that gamification of VT tasks 1 keeps people more entertained and engaged in the project [10], [14], [15]. Therefore, incorporation of serious VT games with VC projects, that generally have limited interaction, will offer another approach 1 The use of gaming approaches to represent scientific human-computation tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In many cases, such interactions are beneficial to both the scientist running the project and to the participating individuals who can gain new skills and knowledge in the process of supporting the project. Existing CCS projects are mainly categorised as volunteer computing (VC) or volunteer thinking (VT) projects, examples of this are provided in [1]- [3]. In a VT project, volunteers use their cognitive skill and knowledge to solve a part of a scientific problem; this type of project requires volunteers' active participation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Enabled by Web-based technology, a new way to do CS has emerged in recent years, which has been named citizen cyberscience (CCS) (Grey, 2009). CCS projects include a wide range of tech-aided activities, which according to Haklay (2013) can be subdivided into:…”

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confidence: 99%

Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience – Lessons from the Citizen Cyberlab Summit

Ramanauskaitė¹,

Haklay²

2016

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This article summarizes the Citizen Cyberlab (CCL) Summit, which took place at University of Geneva on 17-18th September 2015, and introduces the special issue on "Learning and Creativity in Citizen Science". As the final event of a 3-year EU FP7 CCL project, the Summit sought to disseminate project results and reflect on the issue of citizen science (CS) as a participatory environment where opportunities for self-development and various types of creativity can arise. A number of interesting themes emerged at the intersection of the work presented by project collaborators and external partners, including the different types of creativity that are evident in CS, the role of the community as the main medium for innovation and participant learning to occur, and the common challenges concerning the design, initiation and management of CS projects. The current issue presents work done during the CCL project, as well as external project contributions, for which the main focus is on learning and creativity in CS. The set of articles addresses diverse aspects of the topic, ranging from empirical research on the phenomena themselves, to tools, platforms and frameworks developed specifically for citizen cyberscience (CCS) with creativity and learning in mind, and distinct CS cases where these phenomena manifest in previously undescribed and unexpected ways. We hope that the issue will be useful to researchers and practitioners who aim to study, evaluate or design for learning and creativity in a range of CCS projects.

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Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge

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More than A to B: Understanding and managing visitor spatial behaviour in urban forests using public participation GIS

More than A to B: Understanding and managing visitor spatial behaviour in urban forests using public participation GIS

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

Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience – Lessons from the Citizen Cyberlab Summit

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