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The Sapelli smartphone application aims to support any community to engage in citizen science activities to address local concerns and needs. However, Sapelli was designed and developed not as a piece of technology without a context, but as the technical part of a socio-technical approach to establish a participatory science process. This paper pro...
Citizen science gets increasing recognition for its potential to democratize science and support environmental governance. In this paper we present our experiences and lessons learned from a set of ‘extreme’ citizen science initiatives in developing countries, where data collection applications are used to support low-literate people in identifying...
This report aims to enhance our understanding of stakeholder mapping for co-created citizen science initiatives. It presents and discusses findings from an international two-day stakeholder mapping workshop with researchers, event organizers, communication experts, and artists realizing citizen science activities. Participants identified examples o...
Data collection applications on smartphone devices support indigenous communities in developing countries to record and preserve traditional ecological knowledge, collaboratively collect data around issues that are important to them and use these tools to subsequently identify locally-acceptable solutions with global impacts. Development of these i...
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 experiences that citizen science applications generate. Due to the limited number of studies that reflect on these issues, it is not always possible to develop interaction...
Sustainable natural resource management is one of the fundamental development challenges humanity faces today. The scale of the issues involved and the inadequacy of existing paradigms mean that there is an urgent need for innovative and appropriate solutions to enable scientifically-informed sustainable resource management of key environments. Loc...
Providing indigenous communities with ICT tools and methods for collecting and sharing their Traditional Ecological Knowledge is increasingly recognised as an avenue for improvements in environmental governance and social-environmental justice. In this paper we show how we carried out a usability engineering effort in the "wild" context of the Cong...
This paper presents the results of a short study with six wheelchair users to identify accessibility Points of Interest (aPOI) and create appropriate icons for crowd-sourced reporting using a mobile phone app. The study also includes the definition of a decision-tree hierarchy to determine the arrangement of the icons within the app interface for r...
A conservação da biodiversidade é uma questão que tem preocupado o mundo todo. Nas últimas décadas, centenas de áreas protegidas foram criadas para assegurar a preservação da biodiversidade no planeta. Um grande número de áreas protegidas é habitado por comunidades que dependem do uso de seus recursos naturais não apenas para a sua sobrevivência, m...
ExCiteS (Extreme Citizen Science) brings together scholars from diverse fields to develop and contribute to the guiding theories, tools and methodologies that will enable any community to start a Citizen Science project to deal with issues that concern them, regardless of their background or literacy level.
With this poster we announce the imminent release of Sapelli, a new mobile data collection and sharing platform designed with a particular focus on non-literate and illiterate users.
This paper describes a project initiated by non-literate indigenous people to equip their own "citizen scientists" with rugged smartphones running adapted software that enable them to share some of their detailed environmental knowledge in ways that improve the sustainable management of their forest. Supporting local people to share their environme...
UCL’s ExCiteS group develops theories, tools and methodologies to enable communities anywhere to engage in Citizen Science. One goal is to apply ICT to stimulate and support public participation in environmental conservation. The work discussed here approaches this goal from two perspectives. First, we intend to educate the general public about end...
Supporting local communities to share their environmental knowledge by utilizing scientifically accepted tools and methodologies can lead to improvement in environmental governance, environmental justice and management practices. Mbendjele hunter-gatherers in the rainforests of Congo are collaborating with the ExCiteS Research Group at University C...