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 scientific […]
Sea Hero Quest game aims to diagnose dementia by testing navigation skills By AMELIA HEATHMAN, 17 November 2016 2.4 million people have downloaded the app created by neuroscientists to help them understand dementia. Hilary Evans, […]
Global neuroscience projects are producing big data at an unprecedented rate that informatic and artificial intelligence (AI) analytics simply cannot handle. Online games, like Foldit, Eterna, and Eyewire and now a new neuroscience game, Mozak—are fueling a people-powered research science (PPRS) revolution, […]
Expanding citizen science models to enhance open innovation Kendra L. Smith, Arizona State University Over the years, citizen scientists have provided vital data and contributed in invaluable ways to various scientific quests. But they’re typically […]
Beyond today’s crowdsourced science to tomorrow’s citizen science cyborgs Kevin Schawinski, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Millions of citizen scientists have been flocking to projects that pool their time and brainpower to tackle big […]
This paper examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement to consider how these forms of social interaction relate to the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform. Through an ethnographic study we reveal […]
Citizen Science Games 2019