What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent worldwide every day playing Bejeweled, or Angry Birds, or Candy Crush. We’d hesitate […]
This editorial was written by Thomas A Rowles for BMC Biochemistry – See page 4 for more details http://bmcbiochem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2091-14-26 Introduction What constitutes a scientist, and do you have to be a professional researcher to perform […]
It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, […]
Gamification is increasingly implemented in citizen science projects as a means of motivating and sustaining participation. In a survey and subsequent interviews we explored the appeal of gamification for participants in the Old Weather project, […]
Citizen Science Games 2019