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) ...
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Citizen Science Quarterly is a print magazine directed by Jacob Schiach dedicated to science projects made by non-academic scientists. It is based in Houston, Texas, and has already published two issues. In these days, its future depends on us, the web users: the magazine has opened a kickstarter page to […]
To crowdmap a region, first of all you need a crowd. As people are lazy, you need a lot of small contribution to get a meaningful geographical annotation. Of course, this is more easily done in cities, and that’s why projects like OpenStreetMap work so well in big towns like London or New York.
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The science magazine New Scientist had a nice piece on two research projects strictly connected with – when not an outcome of – the everyAware project, as they involve two partners of it (UCL and ISI). A quoting from Jerome Lewis‘ interview captures quite the whole sense of everyAware (although he […]
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 worldwide citizen science projects have already confirmed their attendance there. The proposal for papers and talks should be submitted here. The announced three-day […]
A new interesting article on volunteered “GIS systems, OpenStreetMap and all that stuff is out, whose long long title is “Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and Sensor Web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: trends, OGC standards and application examples”. It is authored (among others) by Maged N. Kamel Boulos and […]
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