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该组织的互动设计以及数据收集。分布式技术通过实现分布式协作，为在比以往任何时候都更大的规模进行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敬业的专业科学家如何协作和沟通。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工作，通常缺乏正式证书，不在科学机构担任专业职位，并为项目和挑战带来多样化的知识和专业知识。他们参与与个人科学兴趣相关的科学工作，并为虚拟组织的设计提出新的挑战。在知识价值方面，该项目将作出三项具体贡献：在自然公园内收集生物多样性数据的新互动设计，将社会计算方法用于公民科学的众包设计的模型，以及众包设计对激励参与收集生物多样性数据的影响的分析。互动桌面电脑将被放置在两个自然公园，以便公民科学环境的设计可以嵌入到公园体验中，并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发展问题的承诺。在更广泛的影响方面，该项目提供了三种类型的影响：包括研究生在内的研究培训，通过广泛的公共传播加强对生物多样性的科学了解，以及通过与阿斯彭环境研究中心(ACES)和生命百科全书(EOL)合作为社会带来好处。

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).