Experimental Tribe: (not so) serious games for scientific purposes
The Everyaware team will participate to the “Second Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds” (within NIPS2011) with a presentation of Experime ...
Citizen cyberscientists gather in 2012
The 2012 edition of the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit has been recently announced. It will take place in London from 16 to 18 February 2012, and some leading figures of worldw ...
The net delusion of the healthcare system
In a recent blog post, Andy Oram complains about the difficulty of applying a Silicon-Valley-like attitude toward innovation at the U.S. healthcare system. Lots of regulations, eve ...
How many birds are there?
Humans are still the best systems in recognizing acoustic patterns. For example, volunteers perform much better than machines in associating vocalizations to the corresponding spec ...
SeGiochiFaiScienza
EveryAware presenta la prima edizione di SeGiochiFaiScienza. Vi invitiamo sabato 9 giugno 2012 presso la libreria Assaggi dalle 10 alle 20, Via degli Etruschi 4, Roma (San Lorenzo) ...
EveryAware presenta la prima edizione di SeGiochiFaiScienza.
Vi invitiamo sabato 9 giugno 2012 presso la libreria Assaggi dalle 10 alle 20, Via degli Etruschi 4, Roma (San Lorenzo) per una giornata interattiva di giochi e scienza.
Timo Goeschl and Ole Juergens from Heidelberg University (Germany) have just published a provocative paper (paywalled, but a similar argument can be found here) about the impact of citizen science on the overall environmental quality. According to the abstract of their paper, they “show that improved citizen monitoring can even have adverse effects on environmental quality”.
