Forgotten Island
Immerse yourself in the mysterious and puzzling world of Forgotten Island. Trapped in the middle of nowhere, you take on the role of a lost adventurer with a secret past. In this point and click adventure game, designed and built by Syracuse University students, you can participate in scientific research while foraging through fearful forests, vicious volcanoes, desolate docks! Forgotten Island was developed by Citizen Sort, a website that contains tools and games to classify various species of insects, animals, and plants.
midcore | adventure point and click | biology | computer (browser)
Articles
Scientific American – on Citizen Science Games
Can You Diagnose Dementia from a Gaming App? By Bahar Gholipour on November 18, 2016 SAN DIEGO—You are guiding a ship through rough waters. On your way you may encounter magical creatures. You can snap […]
Publications
Gamers, citizen scientists, and data: Exploring participant contributions in two games with a purpose
Two key problems for crowd-sourcing systems are motivating contributions from participants and ensuring the quality of these contributions. Games have been suggested as a motivational approach to encourage contribution, but attracting participation through game play […]
Forgotten Island: Exploring Data Quality in Games With a Purpose
A key problem for crowd-sourcing systems is motivating contributions from participants and ensuring the quality of these contributions. Games have been suggested as a motivational approach to encourage contribution, but attracting participation through game play […]
Forgotten island: a story-driven citizen science adventure
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 […]
Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science
Forgotten Island: Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science through the Design and Evaluation of a Social-Computational System Citizen Sort, currently under development, is a web-based social-computational system designed to support […]