TY - GEN
T1 - Gaming for (citizen) science
T2 - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 201
AU - Prestopnik, Nathan R.
AU - Crowston, Kevin
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Citizen Sort, currently under development, is a web-based social-computational system designed to support a citizen science task, the taxonomic classification of various insect, animal, and plant species. In addition to supporting this natural science objective, the Citizen Sort platform will also support information science research goals on motivation for participation in social-computation and citizen science. In particular, this research program addresses the use of games to motivate participation in social-computational citizen science, and explores the effects of system design on motivation and data quality. A design science approach, where IT artifacts are developed to solve problems and answer research questions is described. Research questions, progress on Citizen Sort planning and implementation, and key challenges are discussed.
AB - Citizen Sort, currently under development, is a web-based social-computational system designed to support a citizen science task, the taxonomic classification of various insect, animal, and plant species. In addition to supporting this natural science objective, the Citizen Sort platform will also support information science research goals on motivation for participation in social-computation and citizen science. In particular, this research program addresses the use of games to motivate participation in social-computational citizen science, and explores the effects of system design on motivation and data quality. A design science approach, where IT artifacts are developed to solve problems and answer research questions is described. Research questions, progress on Citizen Sort planning and implementation, and key challenges are discussed.
KW - Citizen Science
KW - Data Quality
KW - Design
KW - Design Science
KW - Games
KW - Gaming
KW - Motivation
KW - Participation
KW - Social Computational Systems
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U2 - 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.14
DO - 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.14
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856960510
SN - 9780769545981
T3 - Proceedings - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 2011
SP - 28
EP - 33
BT - Proceedings - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 2011
Y2 - 5 December 2011 through 8 December 2011
ER -