Geographic Citizen Science Design

No one left behind

Edited by Artemis Skarlatidou and Muki Haklay

ISBN: 9781787356122

Publication: February 04, 2021

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Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other ‘gentlemen scientists’ know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science. The current growth and availability of citizen science projects and relevant applications to support citizen involvement is massive; every citizen has an opportunity to become a scientist and contribute to a scientific discipline, without having any professional qualifications. With geographic interfaces being the common approach to support collection, analysis and dissemination of data contributed by participants, ‘geographic citizen science’ is being approached from different angles.

Geographic Citizen Science Design takes an anthropological and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) stance to provide the theoretical and methodological foundations to support the design, development and evaluation of citizen science projects and their user-friendly applications. Through a careful selection of case studies in the urban and non-urban contexts of the Global North and South, the chapters provide insights into the design and interaction barriers, as well as on the lessons learned from the engagement of a diverse set of participants; for example, literate and non-literate people with a range of technical skills, and with different cultural backgrounds.

Looking at the field through the lenses of specific case studies, the book captures the current state of the art in research and development of geographic citizen science and provides critical insight to inform technological innovation and future research in this area.

Praise for Geographic Citizen Science Design

'The "Indigenous Communities" chapters focus on representation of traditional ecological knowledge in Canada, Central Africa, and Brazilian Amazonia. This section provides exceptional insight into the design challenges of representing, e.g., pictographs or nonstandard characters using standard XML data architecture in user interface design, citing the Sapelli cellphone app developed to overcome language and literacy barriers This open-access text is commended to interdisciplinary readers interested in the confluence of user interface design, mobile geographic information systems, cultural anthropology, international development, and digital government ... Essential [for] Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.'
Choice

'This is a fascinating book describing a shift in scientific paradigms to accommodate projects which are contextualised by place and needs of local communities and their cultures, using the most innovative and user-friendly technologies and where the outcomes can be radical and empowering for those participating.'
Geographical Education

Artemis Skarlatidou is Senior Research Associate in the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) group at UCL.

Muki Haklay is Professor of Geographic Information Science at UCL.

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List of contributors

Foreword
Jenny Preece

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Geographic citizen science design: no one left behind
Artemis Skarlatidou and Muki Haklay

Part I: Theoretical and methodological principles

1 Geographic citizen science: an overview
Muki Haklay

2 Design and development of geographic citizen science: technological perspectives and considerations
Vyron Antoniou and Chryssy Potsiou

3 Design approaches and human–computer interaction methods to support user involvement in citizen science
Artemis Skarlatidou and Carol Iglesias

4 Methods in anthropology to support the design and implementation of geographic citizen science
Raffaella Fryer-Moreira and Jerome Lewis

Part II: Interacting with geographic citizen science in the Global North

5 Geographic expertise and citizen science: planning and co-design implications
Robert Feick and Colin Robertson

6 Citizen science mobile apps for soundscape research and public space studies: lessons from the Hush City project
Antonella Radicchi

7 Using mixed methods to enhance user experience: developing Global Forest Watch
Jamie Gibson

8 Path of least resistance: using geo-games and crowdsourced data to map cycling frictions
Diego Pajarito, Suzanne Maas, Maria Attard and Michael Gould

9 Geographic citizen science in citizen–government communication and collaboration: lessons learned from the ImproveMyCity application
Ioannis Tsampoulatidis, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and Nicos Komninos

Part III: Geographic citizen science with indigenous communities

10 Developing a referrals management tool with First Nations in Northern Canada: an iterative programming approach
Jon Corbett and Aaron Derrickson

11 Lessons from recording Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Congo Basin
Michalis Vitos

12 Co-designing extreme citizen science projects in Cameroon: biodiversity conservation led by local values and indigenous knowledge
Simon Hoyte

13 Community monitoring of illegal logging and forest resources using smartphones and the Prey Lang application in Cambodia
Ida Theilade, Søren Brofeldt, Turreira-García and Dimitrios Argyriou

14 Representing a fish for fishers: geographic citizen science in the Pantanal wetland, Brazil
Rafael Chiaravalloti

15 Digital technology in the jungle: a case study from the Brazilian Amazon
Carolina Comandulli

16 Community mapping as a means and an end: how mapping helped Peruvian students explore gender equality
Peter Ward and Rebecca Firth

Synthesis and Epilogue Geographic citizen science design: No one left behind – an overview and synthesis of methodological, technological and interaction design recommendations
Artemis Skarlatidou and Muki Haklay

Index

Geographical Education

'The "Indigenous Communities" chapters focus on representation of traditional ecological knowledge in Canada, Central Africa, and Brazilian Amazonia. This section provides exceptional insight into the design challenges of representing, e.g., pictographs or nonstandard characters using standard XML data architecture in user interface design, citing the Sapelli cellphone app developed to overcome language and literacy barriers This open-access text is commended to interdisciplinary readers interested in the confluence of user interface design, mobile geographic information systems, cultural anthropology, international development, and digital government ... Essential [for] Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.'
Choice

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ISBN: 9781787356122

Publication: February 04, 2021