Background The life sciences, biomedicine and health care are increasingly turning into a
data intensive science [2–4]. Particularly in bioinformatics and computational biology we …

Engaging with nature enriches people's life greatly, and it is a particularly powerful
wellbeing activity. Unsurprisingly, researchers in HCI and beyond seek to augment and …

The rapid proliferation of online content producing and sharing technologies resulted in an
explosion of user-generated content (UGC), which now extends to scientific data. Citizen …

Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly
landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at the …

We conducted an experiment to examine how people perceive differences between points-
based and story-based gamification approaches. We were interested in how these …

Numerous crowdsourcing platforms are now available to support research as well as
commercial goals. However, crowdsourcing is not yet widely adopted by researchers for …

Although hundreds of citizen science applications exist, there is lack of detailed analysis of
volunteers' needs and requirements, common usability mistakes and the kinds of user …

We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Never before has the impact of climate change been
this visible, problematic, and timely. While most people have a basic awareness of the …

Contributory citizen science projects (hereafter “contributory projects”) are a powerful tool for
avian conservation science. Large-scale projects such as eBird have produced data that …

In the last decade there have been various attempts to foster location-based public
participation. Researchers as well as municipalities have explored several methods, among …