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.