This Image Intentionally Left Blank: Mundane Images Increase Citizen Science Participation

Through my work at Zooniverse, I worked with the MICO Project looking at what motivates citizen science volunteers on Snapshot Serengeti. Our research found that mundane images actually increase, not reduce, volunteer engagement. The work was presented at the HCOMP 2015 conference, as a work-in-progress paper (PDF version here) and as a poster as shown below … Continue reading This Image Intentionally Left Blank: Mundane Images Increase Citizen Science Participation →

Zooniverse

From 2014 to 2016, I was Web Science Architect at the Zooniverse, the world's largest citizen science platform. Zooniverse.com has over 1.5 million volunteers helping scientists with the problems that machines suck at, but humans are great at, such as species identification, pattern recognition, or handwriting transcription. While I was there, my role was to … Continue reading Zooniverse →