Landfill Hunter: Learning about Waste through Public Participation

Yadav, Poonam; Darlington, John

doi:10.15346/hc.v3i1.11

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“…Yadav and Darlington discuss how scientists' and volunteers' motivation and participation influence the design of citizen science platforms. The authors also present guidelines for designing platforms as userinspired socio-technical systems [38].…”

Section: Citizen Science Projects and Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characterising volunteers' task execution patterns across projects on multi-project citizen science platforms

Ponciano

Pereira

2019

Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Citizen science projects engage people in activities that are part of a scientific research effort. On multi-project citizen science platforms, scientists can create projects consisting of tasks. Volunteers, in turn, participate in executing the project's tasks. Such type of platforms seeks to connect volunteers and scientists' projects, adding value to both. However, little is known about volunteer's cross-project engagement patterns and the benefits of such patterns for scientists and volunteers. This work proposes a Goal, Question, and Metric (GQM) approach to analyse volunteers' cross-project task execution patterns and employs the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) to analyse the communicability of the platform's cross-project features. In doing so, it investigates what are the features of platforms to foster volunteers' cross-project engagement, to what extent multi-project platforms facilitate the attraction of volunteers to perform tasks in new projects, and to what extent multi-project participation increases engagement on the platforms. Results from analyses on real platforms show that volunteers tend to explore multiple projects, but they perform tasks regularly in just a few of them; few projects attract much attention from volunteers; volunteers recruited from other projects on the platform tend to get more engaged than those recruited outside the platform. System inspection shows that platforms still lack personalised and explainable recommendations of projects and tasks.

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Section: Citizen Science Projects and Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characterising volunteers' task execution patterns across projects on multi-project citizen science platforms

Ponciano

Pereira

2019

Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Further insights into the UI/UX particularities can be found in the literature with respect to designing virtual citizen science projects [32,41], how technology is being applied in interesting new ways [2], case studies reporting on mobile application based projects [42,43,44], and best practice from the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as applied to biodiversity citizen science [30]. 15 thinkwithgoogle.com/marketing-resources/experience-design/principles-of-mobile-app-designintroduction/ 16…”

Section: Ui/ux Considerations Specific To Citizen Science Projectsmentioning

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Developing Mobile Applications for Environmental and Biodiversity Citizen Science: Considerations and Recommendations

Luna

Gold

Albert

et al. 2018

Multimedia Tools and Applications for Environmental &Amp; Biodiversity Informatics

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The functionality available on modern 'smartphone' mobile devices, along with mobile application software and access to the mobile web, have opened up a wide range of ways for volunteers to participate in environmental and biodiversity research by contributing wildlife and environmental observations, geospatial information, and other context-specific and time-bound data. This has brought about an increasing number of mobile phone based citizen science projects that are designed to access these device features (such as the camera, the microphone, and GPS location data), as well as to reach different user groups, over different project durations, and with different aims and goals. In this chapter we outline a number of key considerations when designing and developing mobile applications for citizen science, with regard to (1) interoperability and data standards, (2) participant centred design and agile development, (3) user interface & user experience design, and (4) motivational factors for participation.

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“…For the benefit of new CS project creators, "Conceptual Frameworks for Building Online Citizen Science Projects" Yadav & Darlington (2016b) present a series of conceptual frameworks meant to guide in every step of creating a new CS project. The frameworks are based on existing CS projects, and include categorization, decision and deployment frameworks, which take all types of CCS, including often unrepresented volunteer computing, into account.…”

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

Ramanauskaitė¹,

Haklay²

2016

HCj

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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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Landfill Hunter: Learning about Waste through Public Participation

Cited by 14 publications

References 4 publications

Characterising volunteers' task execution patterns across projects on multi-project citizen science platforms

Characterising volunteers' task execution patterns across projects on multi-project citizen science platforms

Developing Mobile Applications for Environmental and Biodiversity Citizen Science: Considerations and Recommendations

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

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