Citizen science system assemblages: Understanding the technologies that support crowdsourced science

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 168-176

  Prestopnik, Nathan R ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; socially intelligent computing; system assemblages; web technology

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGE COMPOSITION; CITIZEN SCIENCE; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; PROJECT GOALS; PROJECT OUTCOMES; PROJECT SIZE; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; RESOURCE LEVELS; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SPECIFIC ACTIVITY; SYSTEM ASSEMBLAGES; WEB TECHNOLOGY;

INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84857676890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2132176.2132198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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