Designing an Interface for Citizen Science Platforms Ensuring a Good User Experience

The engagement of volunteers on Citizen Science platforms can considerably be influenced by an intuitive and motivating user interface. This thesis elaborates on a design approach for collaborative Citizen Science platforms that involve their contributors during multiple stages of the scientific research process. The approach provides design concepts, which ensure a good user experience and therefore support a modern science process carried out by professional scientists and lay people. Based on the Citizen Science platform ARTizen, which provides a framework for a collaborative data analysis of art history, an implementation demonstrates the feasibility of the design approach.