Taking participatory citizen science to extremes

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 20-29

  Stevens, Matthias ^a   Vitos, Michalis ^a   Altenbuchner, Julia ^a   Conquest, Gillian ^a   Lewis, Jerome ^a   Haklay, Muki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

citizen science; HCI; ICT4D; literacy; participatory mapping; pervasive computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARCTIC SEA-ICE; CITIZEN SCIENCE; GROUP WORK; ICT4D; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; LITERACY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON'S;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84901441013     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2014.37     Document Type: Article

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