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Android Roadkill, a citizen science appCalifornia Geographical Society, Annual Meeting 2012
Alex MandelCo-Author: Paul Haverkamp
Geography Graduate GroupUniversity of California, Davis
Davis, California 95616
April 28, 2012
Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Non-commercial
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Citizen Science aka Crowdsourcing
Leveraging the PeopleQuantityExisting SkillsGeographic Spread
ClassicseBirdFrogwatchBucket Brigade
New ComersPublic LaboratoryOpenStreetMapWikipedia
Quantity vs. Quality
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Dawn of the Ubiquitous Computing Age
100s of millions of smartphones & tablets
Cheap wireless...in the hands of youth
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Wildlife Crossing
http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/
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Roadkill
Proof of Concept Smartphone applicationAndroid Platform
Number of Potential UsersSignicantly lower barrier to developGoals
Increase ParticipationMake submission easier and faster
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Features
Place MattersGPS location from Photo(Geo-tagged)GPSor Map
Simple - 5 Fields or less quick data entry (2 min or less)Auto-completion of SpeciesWorks Offline
Save data on Device
Upload later when you have an internet connection.Map & List of your data
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Open Source
https://github.com/wildintellect/android-roadkill
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Whats missing?, but planned!
Offline Maps with OpenStreetMapModularity to work with any similar website (A CommonInterface for Citizen Observations)Enticement
GamicationFold-it - Protein folding puzzlesPhylo - Genome matching puzzlesMap Attack - The world is the game board
Make participating directly useful to the users.
Community EngagementDavisWikiOpenstreetmap
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Lessons & the Future
Finding Programmers who care.
Standard Web API for devices would really help.Sharing data widely so that others share with you.
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Special ThanksFraser Shilling, Dave Waetjen, Joey NgData Contributors & UsersAlpha version ready for testers, go tohttp://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/android
Questions?
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