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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

[email protected]

April 28, 2012

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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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