This adventure started in 2013, in a small office in Brighton (UK). I was doing some research on free to play, casual browser games. After having compiled a huge list of these online games, I was about to try them. Everything was going smoothly, I had finished sowing a few seeds and harvesting some trees in Farmerama and I was about to move to the next game on the list: Foldit […]
Games, Science, and Citizen Science: An interview with Vito Servedio, Institute of Complex Systems The Citizen Science Association is re-energizing a series of interviews with citizen scientists and citizen science enthusiasts. This month, Çiğdem Adem […]
Gaming for social good is more than an ethical diversion Marigo Raftopoulos, RMIT University Most of us are only too aware of the seemingly intractable problems we’re facing within healthcare, education, community building, environmental sustainability […]
Citizen science – the public participation in gathering data for scientific studies – is certainly not new, but facilitated by the ease of sharing information online, the opportunities for the public to engage in scientific […]
Citizen science games such as Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, and Phylo aim to harness the intelligence and processing power generated by crowds of online gamers to solve scientific problems. However, the selection of the data to […]
Several months ago I started playing an online game called Phylo. It is both simple and challenging, and I can feel virtuous as I play, since (according to its website) the gameplay is helping scientists […]
Citizen Science Games 2019