Forgotten island: A story-driven citizen science adventure

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Source:

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, Paris, France, p.2643–2646 (2013)

ISBN:

9781450319522

URL:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2480000/2479484/p2643-prestopnik.pdf

Abstract:

<p>Forgotten Island, a citizen science video game, is part of an NSF-funded design science research project, Citizen Sort. It is a mechanism to help life scientists classify photographs of living things and a research tool to help HCI and information science scholars explore storytelling, engagement, and the quality of citizenproduced data in the context of citizen science.</p>