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Empowering Citizen Science: The myScience Master App for Data Collection and Community Engagement

The myScience Master App aims to enable individuals to contribute to scientific research by capturing useful data using their smartphones. With a focus on citizen science, the app facilitates user engagement through a variety of projects, allowing participants to earn points and achievements. By leveraging existing user communities and cloud computing, the app offers cost-effective deployment options. Future iterations will bring improved functionalities, such as customizable profiles, multimedia support, and enhanced user experience. Join us in revolutionizing scientific data collection!

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Empowering Citizen Science: The myScience Master App for Data Collection and Community Engagement

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  1. myScience Lu Li Forrest Lin NaranBayanbat Michael Ortiz VignanPattamatta

  2. project goal Enable individuals to capture useful scientific data with the sensors on WP7

  3. agenda • Idea Synthesis • myScience • Value proposition • Needfinding • Benchmarking • Architecture • v1 demo • Future directions • v2 and v3

  4. Benchmarking: apps

  5. Insights • Similar Interfaces • Small scale

  6. Brainstorming for scale • Pushed for scale • Lack of scientific impact • Phone limitations (no passive data collection)

  7. Synthesis of Idea

  8. myScience Master app for citizen science

  9. myScience Master app for citizen science Cost of deployment ~= 0 Piggyback on existing active user community Store and compute on the cloud for free scientists Contribute to science research Choose from a list of diverse projects Earn points/achievements users

  10. meet a user

  11. needfinding • The Great Sunflower Project • - Crowdsourced pollinator service • 10000 registered users • Web form iNaturalist - Conservation biology (presence model) - iPhone app exists

  12. insights • High development and deployment costs • Hard to maintain and support the app • Hard to build a user community • Making the app discoverable • Hard to generate value from data! • Authentication

  13. benchmarking How does a scientist create an app? • Hire an expert • Translation tools: Appcelerator • Frameworks: ODK, EpiCollect

  14. benchmarking EpiCollect Build a data collection form or survey; Collectdata on phone and send to a server; Aggregate the data on a server and extract it

  15. Tools Comparison

  16. architecture

  17. Windows Azure Platform Cloud Services (like authentication, map, etc) Store Manage Cloud Project Compute Generate Project Get Data Download Project PHP Website Contribute Data Specify Required Data View/Download Data

  18. Version 0

  19. Version 1

  20. Version 2

  21. v1 in depth

  22. v1 demo • Project creation and deployment • Basic game mechanics: profiles, points • Submit data: GPS, timestamp, text fields • Monitor data

  23. Future Directions – v2 • User-side • more customizable profile • report queue • Scientist-side • support image and audio recording • Improved drag and drop app builder • Timeline • 1-2 weeks

  24. Future Directions – v3 • User-side • game mechanics • integrate with other existing systems • Scientist-side • visual customization • video support • spam filtration tool • Timeline: • 6 weeks

  25. Q&A • We’d love to hear your feedback!

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