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Citizen science

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Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science

Jérôme Baudry

Citizen scientists around the world are collecting data with their smartphones, performing scientific calculations on their home computers, and analyzing images on online platforms. These online citizen science projects are frequently lauded for their pote ...

2023

Social media and deep learning reveal specific cultural preferences for biodiversity

Devis Tuia

Social media has created new opportunities to map cultural ecosystem services (CES) related to biodiversity at large scales. However, using these novel data to understand people's preferences in relation to these CES remains a challenge. To address this, w ...

2023

Turning crowds into communities: The collectives of online citizen science

Jérôme Baudry

Over the past two decades, a number of digital platforms have been developed with the aim of engaging citizens in scientific research projects. The success of these platforms depends in no small part on their ability to attract and retain participants, tur ...

2022

La tête dans les étoiles ? Faire sens de l'engagement dans le projet de science participative SETI@home

Jérôme Baudry

De plus en plus de personnes participent à des projets de recherche via des plateformes de sciences participatives (citizen sciences) en ligne, dont les promesses d’éducation, de démocratisation et de production renouvelées des savoirs rencontreraient un p ...

2019

Modes and Existences in Citizen Science: Thoughts from Earthquake Country

In the Bay Area of San Francisco, the earthquake contours are not easy to define: seismology is still a relatively recent science, and controversies around methods to evaluate the earthquake risk are constant. In this context, the invitation to think about ...

2019

Ambiance in Social Media Venues: Visual Cue Interpretation by Machines and Crowds

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Gülcan Can

We study the perception of ambiance of places captured in social media images by both machines and crowdworkers. This task is challenging due to the subjective nature of the ambiance construct as well as the large variety in layout, style, and visual chara ...

IEEE2018