Abstract Citizen science, understood as research that includes both specialists and interested laypeople in its work, has, recent years, become a key concept debates about the future of scholarly practice. The essay attempts to transfer this approach requirements processes editing, especially under heading professionalism. It not only analyses strategies projects have succeeded editing larger a...

Embodied self-motion illusions (“vection”) have long fascinated both researchers and laypeople. With the increasing quality and affordability of immersive virtual reality (VR) and tele-operation/tele-robotics interfaces, there is also increasing interest in providing compelling sensations of self-motions to create more life-like and convincing experiences [4, 13, 21]. Whereas most research on s...

This paper explores social representations of climate change, investigating how climate change is discussed by Swedish laypeople interacting in focus group interviews. The analysis focuses on prototypical examples and metaphors, which were key devices for objectifying climate change representations. The paper analyzes how the interaction of focus group participants with other speakers, ideas, a...

Marine research is as important very demanding since it requires expensive infrastructures and resources. Scientific institutions, on the contrary, have limited funding so that seas remain, still, mostly unexplored. Another serious concern society at large often resonates with fake news, while scientists sometimes tend to bias their backgrounds paradigms. We think all these issues can be addres...