GeoTagger: A collaborative and participatory environmental inquiry system

Jerry Alan Fails; Katherine G. Herbert; Emily Hill; Chris Loeschorn; Spencer Kordecki; David Dymko; Andrew DeStefano; Zill Christian

doi:10.1145/2556420.2556481

GeoTagger: A collaborative and participatory environmental inquiry system

Jerry Alan Fails, Katherine G. Herbert, Emily Hill, Chris Loeschorn, Spencer Kordecki, David Dymko, Andrew DeStefano, Zill Christian

Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

8 Scopus citations

Abstract

This note focuses on the motivation, approach, and the initial prototype implementation of Geotagger: a collaborative participatory environmental inquiry system. We situate the need for such a technology, and discuss related work - much of which is situated in the realm of citizen science. Our work uniquely distinguishes itself from many other citizen science applications in that it supports limited data collection and analysis, with the additional benefit of supporting social interactions and engagement through conversations about observed data. This is accomplished by creating friends and groups which are collaborators in the observational inquiry process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	157-160
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781450325417
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2556481
State	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014 - Baltimore, MD, United States Duration: 15 Feb 2014 → 19 Feb 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Other

Other	17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
Country	United States
City	Baltimore, MD
Period	15/02/14 → 19/02/14

Keywords

Adventures
Children
Citizen science
Collaboration
Social

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Fails, J. A., Herbert, K. G., Hill, E., Loeschorn, C., Kordecki, S., Dymko, D., DeStefano, A., & Christian, Z. (2014). GeoTagger: A collaborative and participatory environmental inquiry system. In CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 157-160). (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556420.2556481

Fails, Jerry Alan ; Herbert, Katherine G. ; Hill, Emily ; Loeschorn, Chris ; Kordecki, Spencer ; Dymko, David ; DeStefano, Andrew ; Christian, Zill. / GeoTagger : A collaborative and participatory environmental inquiry system. CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 157-160 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 157-160 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW).

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