Abstract This emerging trends article introduces concepts such as citizen science (the inclusion of non-professionals in scientific knowledge production) and knowledge games (games that enable players to solve real-world problems through crowdsourcing and collective intelligence […]
Nearly 8,500 “citizen scientists” have sent in stool samples and lifestyle information to the American Gut Project to learn more about their microbiomes — the unique combinations of microbes that inhabit our bodies — and […]
Exploring Motivation and Data Quality in the Context of Crowdsourced Science Through the Design and Evaluation of a Social-Computational System In this paper, an ongoing design research project is described. Citizen Sort, currently under development, […]
Citizen Science Games 2019