Francesco Cappa|Jeffrey Laut|Oded Nov|Luca Giustiniano?|Maurizio Porfiri
Activating social strategies: Face-to-face interaction in technology-mediated citizen science
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli|New York University|Tuscia University|New York University|New York University|Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli|New York University
use crowds research activities public private organizations growing different forms citizen science popular means engaging general public research activities led professional scientists involving large number amateur scientists citizen science enables distributed data collection analysis scale would otherwise difficult costly achieve advancements information technology past decades fostered growth citizen science online participation several projects continue fail due limited participation webbased projects may isolate citizen scientists researchers adopting perspective social strategy investigate within measuremanipulatemeasure experiment motivations participate citizen science project positively influenced facetoface interaction scientists leading project interaction provides participants possibility asking questions spot obtaining detailed explanation citizen science project scientific merit environmental relevance social cultural factors moderate effect brought facetoface interactions motivations also dissected analyzed findings provide exploratory insight means motivating crowds participate online environmental monitoring projects also offering possible selection criteria target audience