The wisdom of the city

By On 03/10/2011 · Leave a Comment

As crowdsourcing become a standard way of data collection, cities seem more and more the ideal ecosystem for this activity due to the high density of sensors and communication networks. The examples collected by the Ushaidi blog show how user-generated and geo-located news can be represented by current mapping software. Of course, watching data […]

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Gravestones still available for citizen scientists

By On 29/09/2011 · Leave a Comment

There are not many reasons to visit graveyards while being alive (there is a single one, afterwards). Dead relatives or friends are the most common ones, closely followed by a handful of suicidal or sick rockstars and poets lying in trendy European graveyards. Environmental monitoring now adds a new motivation: marble gravestones are good recorders […]

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Crowston and the Citizen Science

By On 28/09/2011 · Leave a Comment

Kevin Crowston is one of the most relevant scientist in the field of organization theory applied to computer science cooperative systems. His most well-known papers, according to Google Scholar, received hundreds of citations, with his most cited paper – “The interdisciplinary study of coordination” – peaking at 2164 citations. In the last two years […]

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Using Mobile Phones to Engage Citizen Scientists in Research

By On 26/09/2011 · Leave a Comment

EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 92, NO. 38, PAGE 313, 2011

A paper by Eric A. Graham (CENS, University of California), Sandra Henderson (NEON, Boulder, Colo, USA) and Annette Schloss (Complex Systems Research Center, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, UK)

Abstract: Mobile phone-based tools […]

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Players with a purpose

By On 24/09/2011 · Leave a Comment

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 […]

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