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Technology in Environmental
Citizen Science projects
Muki Haklay
Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) research group, UCL
@mhaklay
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Outline
• Technology role within citizen science
projects
• Sensors, apps, web – front end
technologies
• Databases, volunteer management,
project management – back end
• Platforms for communication – social
media, blogs
• Project management
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Citizen Science overview
Citizen Science
Long running Citizen Science
Ecology & biodiversity
Meteorology Marine
Citizen Cyberscience
Volunteer computing
Volunteer thinking
Passive Sensing
Community Science
Participatory sensing
DIY Science Civic Science
Haklay, M., 2013, Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information – overview and typology of
participation in Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge
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• Reaching out to potential participants
• Providing a structure to data collection processes
• Supporting crowdsourcing and micro-tasking (both data collection & analysis)
• Managing data & ensuring data quality
• Communication and support for volunteers
• Project management
Technology in citizen science
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WHAT THE PARTICIPANTS
SEE & USE
Technologies for citizen science
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Sensing
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Mapping for Change
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NoiseWatch
• Developed by Microsoft in collaboration with the European Environment Agency in 2011
• Provide a simple form of recording level of sound and indicating what was recorded
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Sensing comparison
• Known instrument
• Pros
– Known performance &
calibration
– Limited functionality
in devices
• Cons
– Specialised recording
– Costs
– Learning how to
operate
• Smartphone
• Pros
– Available, people are
familiar with it
– Storage,
communication
• Cons
– Variability in
performance
– Operating systems,
versions, specific
devices
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Experimenting with Sensing
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• Can work on
different
devices:
laptops,
different types
of phones
• Limited access
to device
sensors
Apps: web
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Web app: volunteer thinking
• Different
platforms
provide
variable
functionality
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Apps: mobile
• Required specific
development for each
phone operating
system type (Android,
iOS, Windows) in
addition to web app
• Interface design and
user experience
issues can be
significant
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Apps: reusing
existing
platforms
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Recruitment Personal goalsLocation context
alerts
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Micro taskImmediate feedback
System feedback
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Ongoing incentives / motivations
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MANAGING INFORMATION &
PARTICIPATION
Technologies for citizen science
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-Mapping for Change: UCL’s first Social Enterprise
-Usability Incorporation for Simplified Interface/ Structure
-New Technologies: Leaflet, Angular, HTML5
MfC Community Maps
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-Open Source Web API: User Management, Storage and Translation
-Highly Extensible
-New Technologies: Django, HTML5, PostGIS
GeoKey –community mapping
infrastructure
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Using existing platform
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ArcGIS Online and Survey123
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Open Data Kit (ODK)
• Free and open-source set of tools
• Build data collection forms
• Collect data on a mobile device
• Aggregate the collected data
Michalis Vitos, ExCiteS
https://opendatakit.org/
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- Sapelli: Pictograms and Decision Trees
-Open Source Android App
-Designed to work with non literate and illiterate participants
Sapelli
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Platforms for Citizen Science
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Nature observation platforms
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• Technical abilities and development time
– platforms offer different level of
flexibility to change
• Evaluate platforms through pilot studies
(end-to-end)
• Costs – paying for a commercial or
academic platforms, or costs of
development and maintenance
Platforms
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Recruitment & communication
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• Mailing newsletters – Mailchimp
• Blog – Wordpress.com, Medium.com
• Events – meetup.com, Eventbrite.com
• Social Media – Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram…
Platform for communication
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Analytics - evaluation
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• Identify platforms for project
management – Basecamp, Trello, Slack
• Code & data management – BitBucket,
GitHub
• Document sharing:
DropBox, Google
Drive
• Integration and
procedures
Project management
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• Based on the systems and principles that
we’ve covered, sketch the basic
information system and technologies that
can be used for citizen science project on
light pollution
• Discuss the front-end, back-end and
communication aspects
Your turn!