VOSS: Crowdsourcing interaction design for citizen science virtual organizations

该项目的目标是将公民科学中的众包概念扩展到组织的交互设计和数据收集中。分布式技术通过支持分布式协作，为开展比以往更大规模的科学研究提供了新的机会。在科学组织中使用分布式技术的虚拟组织主要关注专注的专业科学家如何协作和交流。最近，越来越多的公民科学虚拟组织正在形成。公民科学家参与科学努力，通常缺乏正式的证书，不担任科学机构的专业职位，并为项目和挑战带来知识和专业知识的多样性。他们参与与个人科学兴趣相关的科学努力，并为虚拟组织的设计创造新的挑战。就智力价值而言，该项目将做出三个具体贡献：在自然公园内收集生物多样性数据的新交互设计，为公民科学的社会计算方法设计提供众包模型，以及分析众包设计对激励参与收集生物多样性数据的影响。互动桌面电脑将被放置在两个自然公园，这样公民科学环境的设计可以嵌入公园体验，让公众更多地了解他们的公园，收集数据，并培养个人对环境可持续性问题的承诺。就更广泛的影响而言，该项目提供了三种类型的影响：包括研究生的研究培训，广泛的公众传播以加强对生物多样性的科学理解，以及通过与阿斯彭环境研究中心（ACES）和生命百科全书（EOL）的合作为社会带来利益。

The objective of this project is to extend the concept of crowdsourcing in citizen science to the interaction design of the organization as well as to data collection. Distributed technologies offer new opportunities for conducting scientific research on a larger scale than ever before by enabling distributed collaboration. Virtual organizations that use distributed technologies in scientific organizations have primarily focused on how dedicated, professional scientists collaborate and communicate. More recently a rapidly increasing number of citizen science virtual organizations are being formed. Citizen scientists participate in scientific endeavors and typically lack formal credentials, do not hold professional positions in scientific institutions, and bring diversity of knowledge and expertise to projects and challenges. They participate in scientific endeavors related to their personal scientific interests and create new challenges for the design of virtual organizations. In terms of intellectual merit, the project will make three specific contributions: a new interaction design for collecting biodiversity data within a nature park, a model for crowdsourcing the design of an social computing approach to citizen science, and an analysis of the impact of crowdsourcing the design on motivating participation in collecting biodiversity data. Interactive tabletop computers will be placed in two nature parks so that the design of the citizen science environment can be embedded in a park experience and engage the public in understanding more about their parks, in data collection, and develop a personal commitment to environmental sustainability issues. In terms of broader impacts, the project provides three types of impact: research training by including graduate students, broad public dissemination to enhance scientific understanding of biodiversity, and benefits to society through association with the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies (ACES) and Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).