Designing For Citizen Data Analysis-Tinati
#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : Authors: Tinati Kleek Simperl Luczak-Roesch Simpson Shadbolt
designing citizen science platforms
study of Zooniverse
- participants want to discuss aspects of projects and tasks
- standard message boards work well for small communities, but fail to scale.
- integrate the tasks with the message boards to make it easy to discuss.
- workflows that encourage discussion facilitate citizen-led discovery
- allow for community leadership and moderation
- encourage and enable the community to advertise on social media
- get timely support from science team leaders
- encourage “best guesses”
- task memorability, difficulty, speed, and amount of feedback provided
- give feedback every so often
- adding context to a task adds value
- launch performance indicative of success.
