An open-science crowdsourcing approach for producing community noise maps using smartphones

A Virtual Crowdsourcing Community for Open Collaboration in Science Processes

Although science has become an increasingly collaborative endeavor over the last hundred years, only little attention has been devoted to supporting scientific communities. Our work focuses on scientific collaborations that revolve around complex science questions that require significant coordination to synthesize multi-disciplinary findings, enticing contributors to remain engaged for extende...

Correction: Crowdsourcing for Cognitive Science – The Utility of Smartphones

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Harriet R. Brown, Peter Zeidman, Peter Smittenaar, Rick A. Adams, Fiona McNab, Robb B. Rutledge, Raymond J. Dolan 1 Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 3 Wellcome Trust Centre fo...

Crowdsourcing for Cognitive Science – The Utility of Smartphones

By 2015, there will be an estimated two billion smartphone users worldwide. This technology presents exciting opportunities for cognitive science as a medium for rapid, large-scale experimentation and data collection. At present, cost and logistics limit most study populations to small samples, restricting the experimental questions that can be addressed. In this study we investigated whether t...

Human Activity Detection using Smartphones and Maps

An Innovative Crowdsourcing Approach for

Web2 and the evolving vision of Web3 have a great effect on facilitation of information sharing, information aggregation, interoperability, user-centered design, collaboration on the World Wide Web, and crowd-centered services. New concept of Web is the intuition that drives crowdsourcing, crowd servicing, and crowd computing. With crowdsourcing emergence people get motivated to work through in...