Creative Science @ Citizen Cyberlab

Brian Fuchs & Margaret Gold

Science for All and All for Science:

http://citizencyberlab.eu

Science FOR ALL

  Ubiquity   Reuse/Remixing   Cognitive Surplus

UBIQUITY

UBIQUITY

Dark SIDE of Ubiquity

REMIX

  Imperative Procedure -> Reusable Building Block   Aka first order functions, scripting, macros   Many examples in science and arts.

 Music: tracks   Biology: Synthetic biology tools: biobots, gene databases,

etc.   Physics: Gauss->Tensors, Rivet (CERN): publish, run, reuse

tunings   Share solutions.   Increase intelligent behaviour across users.   Unstable but extremely powerful.

REMIX

REMIX

Cognitive Surplus

COGNITIVE SURPLUS

Citizen Science

In the Beginning...

Before Computers

TODAY

The Internet Arrives

Personal Devices

SUPPORT LEARNING AND CREATIVITY IN CITIZEN SCIENCE

Citizen Cyberlab

HTTP://CITIZENCYBERLAB.EU

Citizen Cyberlab

Citizen Cyberlab

Citizen Cyberlab Partners

•  COMMUNITY MAPS •  CITIZEN GRID •  REDWIRE

Platforms

Open Community Maps

Open Community Maps

•  GATHER, SHARE, VISUALISE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE.

•  EASY PROJECT SET-UP/ADMIN •  DESIGN MODELS /FORMS •  PUBLISH, REUSE VISUALISATIONS

•  HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/EXCITES/OPENCOMMUNITYMAPS

Platform: Redwire.io

Redwire.io

•  CREATE AND SHARE GAMES •  REMIX GAMES •  TRACK USER BEHAVIOUR

•  HTTP://REDWIRE.IO

Redwire.io

Redwire.io: Computer shoot

REDWIRE

Citizen GRID

CitizenGrid

  Publish and share client-server and P2P applications   Create e-Science applications using a mix of volunteer and

cloud computing resources.   Virtualisation   Open Virtualisation Format   Enable citizen scientists to use compute intensive e-Science

applications.

  Imperial College   http://citizencyberlab.eu/platforms/cloud-infrastructures/

Pilots

 Virtual Atom Smasher (CERN)  Geotag-X: Collaborative Disaster

Mapping (UNITAR)  Synthbio4all (CRI)   ICT for Arctic indigenous communities

(UCL)

Pilots: Virtual Atom Smasher

Virtual Atom Smasher

  Run LHC simulations at home   Create tunings to help scientists at CERN   Interactively adjust simulations as they are running.

  https://github.com/wavesoft/VirtualAtomSmasher

Geotag-X

Source: National Geographic

"   Disaster Mapping web application.

"   Harvest media (photos, videos, audio) coming out of a disaster

"  Analyse media to produce structured and relevant data of what is happening on the ground

"  Share knowledge of experts with crowd to enable them to perform analysis

"  http://geotagx.org

Geotag-X

Source: National Geographic

Source: National Geographic

Geotag-X

Hero.Coli

HERO.COLI

  Crowdsourcing for synthetic biology projects

HERO.COLI

http://herocoli.com

Arctic ICT: helping whale hunters adapt to climate change

Arctic ICT

  Climate change alters how local subsistence communities hunt for food.

  Decreasing ice cover.   Enable local communities to build their own kit

and share/visualise data via DIY science   First Alaska Hack in Barrow, 30 July.   http://citizencyberlab.eu/portfolio/arctic-

science-hack-lates/

Epicollect

TOOLS

 EPICOLLECT-PLUS  HTML5 framework for mobile data

collection sharing and visualisation.  Origin: epidemiology.  http://www.epicollect.net

Epicollect

Epicollect

Evaluation

 How much do citizen scientists learn?

 How does citizen science enable/increase creativity?

 UNIGE/UCL

Learning Cube

GETTING INVOLVED…

Events / Hacks

  WSF 2013 Science Hack   OTA 2013 Mobile Science Hack   CERN Webfest 2013   Mozfest 2013   Cyberscience Summit 2014   SMLates Make Hack Do   WSF 2014 Science Hack

Upcoming events

 BARROW ARDUINO HACK  Barrow, Alaska 28 July-3 August

 UNITAR DISASTER MAPPING CHALLENGE:  CERN WEBFEST 8-9 August 2014

Http://mobilecollective.co.uk

Give me a place to stand and I’ll move the world

Brian Fuchs & Margaret Gold

δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω