Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment

Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment

Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-based citizen science biodiversity application. Our...

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Main Authors: Moran, Stuart, Pantidi, Nadia, Rodden, Tom, Chamberlain, Alan, Griffiths, Chloe, Zilli, Davide, Merrett, Geoff
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: ACM 2014
Subjects:
Citizen Science
Audio
HCI
CSCW
Etymology
Design
Software Design
Interaction
Evaluation
In the Wild
Crowd Sourcing
Science
Nature
Wildlife
Ecology
Environment
Technology
IT
Agents
AI
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/37417/
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Summary:Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-based citizen science biodiversity application. Our findings from interviews with members of the biodiversity community revealed a tension between the technology and their established working practices. From our experience, we present a series of general guidelines for those designing citizen science apps Full Citation Moran, Stuart, Pantidi, Nadia, Rodden, Tom, Chamberlain, Alan, Griffiths, Chloe, Zilli, Davide, Merrett, Geoff V. and Rogers, Alex (2014) Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment. In, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, CA, 26 Apr - 01 May 2014. (doi:10.1145/2556288.255702).

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