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Issue 01, Special Issue: User Experience of Digital Technologies in Citizen Science, 2019 Seven papers focusing on “design standards”, “design methods” and “user experience in the physical and digital world” explore how citizen science volunteers […]
Deep learning is combined with massive-scale citizen science to improve large-scale image classification Abstract: Pattern recognition and classification of images are key challenges throughout the life sciences. We combined two approaches for large-scale classification of […]
CASP is a worldwide experiment in which groups work to solve structures of unknown proteins. Many @Foldit players are listed as co-authors in this latest Nature paper examining the results of the WeFold "coopetition" during […]
The latest EteRNA paper, describing an unexpected pattern in biology’s favorite RNA sequence, poly(A), was written solely by Eterna players! Evidence of an Unusual Poly(A) RNA Signature Detected by Highthroughput Chemical Mapping Homopolymeric adenosine RNA […]
Abstract The use of games in citizen science is growing, but can create tension as gaming and science can be seen as incompatible areas of activity. For example, the motivations for winning a game and […]
Human cognitive strategies vary across nations and cultures. However, it is unknown whether the cognitive strategies of nations are randomly distributed or whether groups of countries are clustered by similar cognitive profiles. Using a mobile-based […]
Citizen Science Games 2019