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Listening to the forest and its curators: lessons learnt from a bioacoustic smartphone application deployment

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Alan Chamberlain,

Chloe Griffiths,

Alex RogersAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2387 - 2396

https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557022

Published: 26 April 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Our natural environment is complex and sensitive, and is home to a number of species on the verge of extinction. Surveying is one approach to their preservation, and can be supported by technology. This paper presents the deployment of a smartphone-based citizen science biodiversity application. Our findings from interviews with members of the biodiversity community revealed a tension between the technology and their established working practices. From our experience, we present a series of general guidelines for those designing citizen science apps.

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