Posts by: Andrea Capocci

Geographies of enthusiasm

By On 15/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

An excerpt from one of the most exciting call for papers i have received recently:

This session is interested in people, places and cultures that have for various reasons been overlooked, regarded as old-fashioned or too readily classed as mundane, non-spectacular, even ‘amateur’. Papers will discuss a culture of exploration that involves romance, revery, […]

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Experimental Tribe: (not so) serious games for scientific purposes

By On 13/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

The Everyaware team will participate to the “Second Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds” (within NIPS2011) with a presentation of Experimental Tribe:

“Experimental Tribe (ET) is a platform for web-based experiments and social computation. It is
currently available in beta version at www.xtribe.eu. ET is aimed at […]

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Data: visualize or analyze?

By On 12/12/2011 · Leave a Comment

At the Eye On Earth Summit, a special working group has been devoted to crowdsourcing for environmental purposes. The White Paper introducing the discussion is a very clear presentation of the field, and it is useful for a broad audience – from citizens interested into the potential of social media to scientists writing their […]

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The wisdom of the (optimal) crowd

By On 24/11/2011 · Leave a Comment

Dozens of new citizen science projects are generated daily. Most of them include beautiful maps, fair amounts of crowdsourced data, amazing visualization tools. But how many of these projects provide a really good representation of the monitored projects? In other words: we can ask birdwatchers to monitor birds’ migration paths, but are we really […]

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Camping on the crisis

By On 19/11/2011 · 2 Comments

As multiple crisis of natural and human source hit Italy, the country becomes a natural playground to test and apply crowdsourcing techniques for emergency prevention and management. In a meeting in Bologna recent developments in this area will be discussed.

Crisis and disasters have played a major role in the […]

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