sociam april 2013 : the zooniverse as social machine

Chris Linto+University of Oxford

Friday, April 26, 13

The Milky Way Project: measure and map our galaxy in infrared

35,000volunteers

milkywayproject.org

drawings

3,000,000


The Andromeda Project: Explore high-resolution Hubble data to find star clusters in M31, and galaxies beyond it.

22days

andromedaproject.org

classifications

1,000,000+


Moon Zoo: mark craters and boulders on high-resolution data

9.45wales

moonzoo.org

classifications

3,300,000


Planet Four: locate seasonal ‘fans’ on the surface of the red planet.

75,000volunteers

planetfour.org

classifications

3,800,000


Planet Hunters: find and mark planets

200,000volunteers

planethunters.org

classifications

17m


Solar Stormwatch: track solar storms as they head toward to Earth

45,000volunteers

solarstormwatch.com

games

6


Old Weather: transcribe the logs of WW1 vessels as they travel the globe, collecting valuable climate data

25,000volunteers

oldweather.org

pages

1,000,000


Snapshot Serengeti: identify and describe animals in Serengeti National Park

20,000volunteers

snapshotserengeti.org

classifications

6,500,000


Whale FM: Listen to whale calls to decode their language

10,000volunteers

whale.fm

classifications

150,000


Seafloor Explorer: dive under the surface and tell us what you see

1week

seafloorexplorer.org

classifications

750,000


Cell Slider: answer simple questions about medical data to help the effort to find treatments for breast cancer.

24hours

cellslider.net

classifications

19,000


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175000

350000

525000

700000

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Lightcurves Classified in January 2012


Lintott et al., 2012arXiv : 1202.6007github : Zooniverse/Talk


Waterhouse, ‘Pay by the Bit: An Information-Theoretic Metric for Collective Human Judgment’, Proc CSCW, ACM, (2013), pp. 623-638


Waterhouse, ‘Pay by the Bit: An Information-Theoretic Metric for Collective Human Judgment’, Proc CSCW, ACM, (2013), pp. 623-638

We need models like this but we need to take into account :

- That people get bored, & that some tasks are more boring than others

- That learning occurs, & that some tasks are more effective educators than others.

- That these are in conflict!


zooniverse.org


sociam april 2013 : the zooniverse as social machine

Technology

collective human judgment

informationtheoretic

red planet

planet hunters

highresolution hubble

highresolution data9

mark craters

mark planets200