The Impact of Task Workflow Design on VGI Citizen Science Platforms
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Citizen science platforms allow non-scientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines, and often involve the collection of volunteered geographic information from remotely sensed imagery. What these systems ask of volunteers varies considerably in terms of task type, level of user judgement required and user freedom. This work studied the Zooniverse‟s Planet Four project and investigated the effect of task workflow design on user engagement and outputs. Results show participants found the more guided, less-autonomous interface more frustrating, while the less complex, repetitive interface resulted in greater data coverage.
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