Games with a scientific purpose

December 28, 2011

The protein folding game Foldit shows that games are an effective way to recruit, engage and organize ordinary citizens to help solve difficult scientific problems. Modern science is filled with challenges of massive scale. From […]

Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science

December 15, 2011

Forgotten Island: Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science through the Design and Evaluation of a Social-Computational System Citizen Sort, currently under development, is a web-based social-computational system designed to support […]