Investigating Audience Engagement with Citizen Science

调查公众科学的受众参与度

• 批准号: 0917608
• 负责人: Lucy Fortson
• 金额: $ 92.63万
• 依托单位: Adler Planetarium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917608&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Investigating; Audience; Engagement; Citizen; Science

The Adler Planetarium, Johns Hopkins University, and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville are investigating the potential of online citizen science projects to broaden the pool of volunteers who participate in analysis and investigation of digital data and to deepen volunteers' engagement in scientific inquiry. The Investigating Audience Engagement with Citizen Science project is administering surveys and conducting case studies to identify factors that lead volunteers to engage in the astronomy-focused Galaxy Zoo project and its Zooniverse extensions. The project is (1) identifying volunteers' motivations for joining and staying involved, (2) determining factors that influence volunteers' movement from lower to higher levels of involvement, and (3) designing features that influence volunteer involvement. The project's research findings will help informal science educators and scientists refine existing citizen science programs and develop new ones that maximize volunteer engagement, improve the user experience, and build a more scientifically literate public.

阿德勒天文馆，约翰·霍普金斯大学和伊利诺伊大学 - 埃德沃兹维尔正在调查在线公民科学项目的潜力，以扩大参与数字数据分析和调查并加深志愿者参与科学询问的志愿者的库。调查观众与公民科学项目的参与正在进行调查和进行案例研究，以确定导致志愿者参与以天文学为中心的Galaxy Zoo项目及其周围扩展的因素。该项目是（1）确定志愿者加入和保持参与的动机，（2）确定影响志愿者从较低参与到更高水平的运动的因素，以及（3）设计影响志愿者参与的特征。该项目的研究结果将有助于非正式的科学教育者和科学家完善现有的公民科学计划，并开发新的计划，以最大程度地提高志愿者参与度，改善用户体验并建立更科学的识字公众。