Beyond today’s crowdsourced science to tomorrow’s citizen science cyborgs Kevin Schawinski, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Millions of citizen scientists have been flocking to projects that pool their time and brainpower to tackle big […]
Citizen science games: the ultimate list This week, by request: a huge list of citizen science games you can play and enjoy while contributing to the greater good. Go have fun! Astro Drone – Created […]
This paper presents results from the design and testing of an educational version of Quantum Moves, a Scientific Discovery Game that allows players to help solve authentic scientific challenges in the effort to develop a […]
Crowdscience games may hold unique potentials as learning opportunities compared to games made for fun or education. They are part of an actual science problem solving process: By playing, players help scientists, and thereby interact […]
In most online citizen science projects, a large proportion of participants contribute in small quantities. To investigate how low contributors differ from committed volunteers, we distributed a survey to members of the Old Weather project, […]
Online citizen science projects have the potential to engage thousands of participants with scientific research. A small number of projects such as Foldit use an online computer game format. Motivation to participate in Foldit was […]
Citizen Science Games 2019