The game, developed on the XTribe platform, is the virtual counterpart of the EveryAware project. It allows you to see on a map information about traffic, your task being to draw a driving route between two points, trying to optimise both distance and time (traffic exposure).
The game […]
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 […]
The second edition of the Open Science Summit is opening tomorrow. According to the organizers’ presentation,
The Open Science Summit unites researchers, life science industry professionals, students, patients and other stakeholders to discuss the future of collaborative science and innovation.
If you cannot make it to Mountain View, you can follow the […]
Markus Krause and Jan Smeddinck of Bremen University have written a useful survey about human computation games, where users are asked to solve hard problems while participating to simple digital games. A paradigmatic example is “ESP”, in which users are asked to tag images and get a reward when two users adopt the same […]
Despite David Cameron protests, social networks have played multiple roles in the whole UK riot story. For example, crowdmaps have been created to gather real-time information about ongoing events and help the post-riot cleanup. Blogs too have helped the communities for transportation and street cleaning. Even the Met Police had created a Flickr webpage […]
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