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 projects grow in number and in relevance everyday. As research funding and credibility risk to be undermined by the current crisis, professional scientists should be happy about this new trend: lots of people ask them to collaborate to specific science problems and help them in a way or another. Unfortunately, scientists do not […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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