Within conservation and ecology, volunteer participation has always been an important
component of research. Within the past two decades, this use of volunteers in research has …

There is almost universal agreement that scientific data should be shared for use beyond the
purposes for which they were initially collected. Access to data enables system-level …

We present a novel platform for supporting public deliberation on difficult decisions.
ConsiderIt guides people to reflect on tradeoffs and the perspectives of others by framing …

Citizen science projects can collect a wealth of scientific data, but that data is only helpful if it
is actually used. While previous citizen science research has mostly focused on designing …

Crowd-sourcing social computing systems represent a new material for HCI designers.
However, these systems are difficult to work with and to prototype, because they require a …

We propose and test a framework of the antecedents of contribution in two technology-
mediated citizen science projects, with different degrees of task granularity. Comparing …

Collaborative visual analysis tools can enhance sensemaking by facilitating social
interpretation and parallelization of effort. These systems enable distributed exploration and …

This paper discusses the interrelationship between e-Science and CSCW in terms of key
substantive, methodological and conceptual innovations made in both fields. In so doing, we …

Citizen science is an increasingly popular way of engaging volunteers in the collection of
scientific data. Despite this, data quality remains a concern and there is little published …

Web-based social data analysis tools that rely on public discussion to produce hypotheses
or explanations of the patterns and trends in data, rarely yield high-quality results in practice …