Do games attract or sustain engagement in citizen science?: a study of volunteer motivations

May 2, 2013

Increasingly, games are being incorporated into online citizen science (CS) projects as a way of crowdsourcing data; yet the influence of gamification on volunteer motivations and engagement in CS projects is still unknown. In an […]

Purposeful gaming & socio-computational systems: a citizen science design case

October 27, 2012

Citizen science is a form of social computation where members of the public are recruited to contribute to scientific investigations. Citizen-science projects often use web-based systems to support collaborative scientific activities, making them a form […]