Free as in puppies: Compensating for ICT constraints in citizen science

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1469-1480

  Wiggins, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Citizen science; Data quality; Distributed work; Scientific collaboration; Technology mediated participation

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DATA QUALITY; DISTRIBUTED WORK; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED PARTICIPATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84874928440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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