Forgotten island: a story-driven citizen science adventure

April 27, 2013

Forgotten Island, a citizen science video game, is part of an NSF-funded design science research project, Citizen Sort. It is a mechanism to help life scientists classify photographs of living things and a research tool […]

ARTigo: Building an Artwork Search Engine With Games and Higher-Order Latent Semantic Analysis

March 22, 2013

This article describes how a semantic search engine has been build from, and still is continuously improved by, a semantic analysis of the “footprints” left by players on the gaming Web platform ARTigo. The Web […]

Cancer Research UK Hosts Hackathon to Build a Smartphone Research Game

March 4, 2013

Citizen Scientists Join Cancer Research UK for Hackathon This past weekend, top developers at Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services joined research academics and public attendees for a Cancer Research UK hackathon to utilize crowdsourced […]

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