Sensr: Evaluating a flexible framework for authoring mobile data-collection tools for citizen science

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1453-1462

  Kim, Sunyoung ^a   Mankoff, Jennifer ^a   Paulos, Eric ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Mobile applications; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING ENVIRONMENTS; CITIZEN SCIENCE; FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE DATA COLLECTIONS; PROGRAMMING SKILLS; TECHNICAL CONSTRAINTS; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

DATA ACQUISITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874922652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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