About

About me

After 10 years in the video games industry, I started focusing on games that help scientific research. I first discovered citizen science games by playing Foldit and got completely hooked. I launched this website in 2016 and worked on Stall Catchers, a gamified project to accelerates Alzheimer’s research, through 2018. I’m now consulting for citizen science and crowdsourcing projects. You can follow me on Twitter, find me on LinkedIn, or email me at claire (at) citizensciencegames (dot) com.

What is Citizen Science?

Citizen science is where volunteers, in collaboration with scientists, get involved in science. This can be collecting and analyzing data, interpreting results, classifying and transcribing information, conducting experiments or by playing citizen science games.

Citizen scientists can help experts who are overwhelmed by big data and new technology to gather even more data, solve complex problems and make discoveries using new technologies! At the same time, the participants have fun, learn about science, develop skills, and gain a greater understanding of the scientific process.

Whether you are passionate about birds, the environment, quantum physics or bio-hacking, you can always find a citizen science project that matches your interests. Citizen Science Games is dedicated to feature… well, citizen science games! citizensciencegames.com is both a news website and a rich collection of citizen science games, articles from scientific magazines and publications from scientific journals.

More websites related to Citizen Science Games
Science Game Lab

New portal for citizen science games and gamified projects.
Science Game Center

Find more science games, discuss and review the games.
Massively Multiplayer Online Science

Created to connect scientific research and video games.
Websites featuring Citizen Science Projects
National Geographic

Learn how you can participate in citizen science projects.
scistarter

SciStarter connects projects, citizen scientists, and resources.
Cit Sci . Org

CitSci supports your research by providing tools and resources.
Scientific American

Make science happen by participating in research project.
Wikipedia

List of citizen science projects on Wikipedia.
zooniverse

Large and popular platform for people-powered research.
Opal Explore

The Open Air Laboratories is a UK citizen science initiative.
Extreme Citizen Science

ExCiteS aims at helping people start citizen science project.
Extreme Citizen Science

Don’t hesitate to suggest new resource.
Websites providing information on Citizen Science
Citizen Science Association

Harness the knowledge gained by practitioners and researchers.
Citizen Science Journal

Peer-reviewed journal by the Citizen Science Association.
European Citizen Science Association

Encourages the growth of citizen science in Europe.
Citizen Science . Gov

Official website to accelerate citizen science across the U.S.
Citizen Science Toolkit

Federal crowdsourcing and citizen science toolkit.
Citizen Science Center

Comprehensive resource for all things related to citizen science.
Books on Citizen Science


Citizen Science in the Digital Age
James Wynn – 2017


Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World
Asi Burak – 2017


Knowledge Games
Karen Schrier – 2016


Citizen Science: How Ordinary People Are Changing the Face of Discovery
Caren B Cooper – 2016


Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Mary Ellen Hannibal – 2016


The Rightful Place of Science: Citizen Science
Darlene Cavalier – 2016


Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research
Janis Dickinson – 2015


Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World
Sharman Apt Russell – 2014


Be the Change: Saving the World with Citizen Science
Chandra Clarke – 2014


The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science
Akiko Busch – 2013


Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
Michael Nielsen – 2013


Citizen Science: A Study of People, Expertise and Sustainable Development
Alan Irwin – 1995