3 papers
physics.ed-ph2018
Appraising Human Impact on Watersheds: The Feasibility of Training Citizen Scientists to make Qualitative Judgments
Alina Striner, Jennifer Preece
Citizen science often requires volunteers to perform low-skill tasks such as counting and documenting en- vironmental features. In this work, we contend that these tasks do not ade…
cs.HC2018
StreamBED: Training Citizen Scientists to Make Qualitative Judgments Using Embodied Virtual Reality Training
Alina Striner, Jennifer Preece
Environmental citizen science frequently relies on experience-based assessment, however volunteers are not trained to make qualitative judgments. Embodied learning in virtual reali…
cs.HC2017
Refining StreamBED Through Expert Interviews, Design Feedback, and a Low Fidelity Prototype
Alina Striner, Jennifer Preece
StreamBED is an embodied VR training for citizen scientists to make qualitative stream assessments. Early findings garnered positive feedback about training qualitative assessment…