The Mars crowdsourcing experiment: Is crowdsourcing in the form of a serious game applicable for annotation in a semantically-rich research domain?

Proceedings of CGAMES'2011 USA - 16th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Interactive Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 201-208

  Van't Woud, J S S ^a   Sandberg, J A C ^b   Wielinga, B J ^a  

^a ESA Business Incubation Programme   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Gaming; HiRISE; Knowledge Transfer; Mars; MRO; Semantics; Serious

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; GAMING; HIRISE; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; MARS; MRO; SERIOUS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

ANIMATION;

EID: 80053106503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CGAMES.2011.6000339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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