Category: citizen cyberlab

Paper: GeoKey – open infrastructure for community mapping and science

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The special issue of the Human Computation Journal (see the details of the editorial here), summarises the result from the EU FP7 “Citizen Cyberlab” project. One of the outcomes of the project is the development of the GeoKey platform for participatory mapping. Therefore, a paper that was written with Oliver Roick and Claire Ellul explains … Continue reading Paper: GeoKey – open infrastructure for community mapping and science

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citizen cyberlab, citizen science, EU FP7, GeoKey, Papers, participatory GIS, Participatory Mapping, PPGIS, Public Participation GIS, VGI

Editorial in Human Computation Journal – Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience

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As part of a special issue of the open access Human Computation Journal, I am the co-author of the editorial Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience – Lessons from the Citizen Cyberlab Summit. Following the summit (see blog post here), Egle Ramanauskaite took the blog posts and edited them with her notes, which led to a … Continue reading Editorial in Human Computation Journal – Creativity and Learning in Citizen Cyberscience

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New paper: Usability and interaction dimensions of participatory noise and ecological monitoring

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The EveryAware book provided an opportunity to communicate the results of a research that Dr Charlene Jennett led, together with two Masters students: Joanne (Jo) Summerfield and Eleonora (Nora) Cognetti, with me as an additional advisor. The research was linked to the EveryAware, since Nora explored the user experience of WideNoise, the citizen science noise monitoring … Continue reading New paper: Usability and interaction dimensions of participatory noise and ecological monitoring

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citizen cyberlab, citizen science, GeoHCI, GIS, GIS Usability, HCI, Human–computer interaction, Papers, PPGIS, UCLIC, Usability, VGI

Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement

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The slides below are from my keynote talk at the Esri Education User Conference 2016. The conference focused on creativity and its relevant to education and the utilisation of GIS (especially Esri software) at different levels of education. My talk explored the area of citizen science and extreme citizen science and the way geographical technologies … Continue reading Esri Education User Conference talk: Citizen Science & Geographical Technologies: creativity, learning, and engagement

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Citizen Cyberlab – notes from final review (26-27 January, Geneva)

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Every project ends, eventually. The Citizen Cyberlab project was funded through the seventh framework programme of the European Union (or EU FP7 in short), and run from September 2012 to November 2015. Today marks the final review of the project in with all the project’s partners presenting the work that they’ve done during the project. The project had … Continue reading Citizen Cyberlab – notes from final review (26-27 January, Geneva)

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citizen cyberlab, citizen cyberscience, citizen science, Discovery games, EU FP7, Extreme Citizen Science, games, Research projects, VGI

Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 2)

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The second day of the Citizen Cyberlab Summit followed the same pattern of the first day: Two half day sessions, in each one short presentations from guest speakers from outside the project consortium, followed by two demonstrations of specific platform, tool, pilot or learning, and ending with discussion in groups, which were then shared back. The first … Continue reading Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 2)

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Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 1)

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The Citizen Cyberlab Summit is the final event of the Citizen Cyberlab project. The name might sound grand, but the event itself was fairly intimate and focused, with about 40 participants from across the world. The aim of the event was to share the learning from the project and compare them to similar activities around the world. It … Continue reading Citizen Cyberlab Summit (day 1)

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NightScience 2015 – CRI Paris

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NighStcience 2015 in CRI-Paris, 10-11 July –  Night Science is a mode of exploratory, innovative science, and as in previous years, it is an event that mixes talks with active hands-on experience. The event this year was marked by linking open innovation, social responsibility and entrepreneurship to science. The event was opened by as Francois … Continue reading NightScience 2015 – CRI Paris

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Making participation in citizen science interesting & useful – survey

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The Citizen Cyberlab research project is asking for your help in understanding how citizen science projects can be designed to help you learn more about their scientific topic of the project, and making participation more interesting and useful for you. In addition to general understanding of why and how people take part in citizen sciences … Continue reading Making participation in citizen science interesting & useful – survey

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citizen cyberlab, citizen science, Research projects