Case study of a multi-domain citizen science platform

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 4069-4078

  Tinati, Ramine ^b   Van Kleek, Max ^b   Simperl, Elena ^b   Luczak Roesch, Markus ^b   Simpson, Robert ^a   Shadbolt, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Online communities

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; CROWDSOURCING; NUMBER OF FACTORS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; OVERALL PROCESS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PLATFORM;

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

EID: 84951072810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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