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The engagement of the public in the scientific process is an old practice. Yet with recent advances in technology, the role of the citizen scientist in studying evolutionary processes has increased. Insects provide ideal models for understanding these evolutionary processes at large scales. This review highlights how insect-based citizen science has led to the expansion of specimen collections ...

Citizen science projects in health-related research usually follow a crowdsourcing approach where laypersons primarily have supplying role data collection. By contrast, this article presents an on much higher engagement level (co-creation) team of professional and citizen scientists jointly plans, implements, evaluates scientific study chronic disease from which the (patient) themselves suffer....

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 the...

Participatory governance entails converting citizens from passive users of administrative decisions into active participants of political procedures. Public institutions and organizations can benefit from methods and tools able to aggregate and interpret information dispersed among citizens. In this paper we explore the use of Information Aggregation Markets (IAMs) for citizen engagement. We id...

This position paper is concerned with the research and design of infocommunication technologies for citizen engagement and learning in smart ecosystems. The work assumes a human-centric citizen-driven smart city design approach and also proposes a R&D iterative framework model based on SOA work that goes from citizen inquiry to a front-end dashboard paradigm proposal. A research framework is di...

The majority of volunteers participating in citizen science projects perform only a few tasks each before leaving the system. We designed an intervention strategy to reduce disengagement in 16 different citizen science projects. Targeted users who had left the system received emails that directly addressed motivational factors that affect their engagement. Results show that participants receivi...