Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-7-2022
Publication Title
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Volume
6
Issue
CSCW1
First Page
1
Last Page
22
Abstract
Citizen science project leaders collecting field data in a hyperlocal community often face common socio-technical challenges, which can potentially be addressed by sharing innovations across different groups through peer-to-peer collaboration. However, most citizen science groups practice in isolation, and end up re-inventing the wheel when it comes to addressing these common challenges. This study seeks to investigate distributed collaboration between different water monitoring citizen science groups. We discovered a unique social network application called Water Reporter that mediated distributed collaboration by creating more visibility and transparency between groups using the app. We interviewed 8 citizen science project leaders who were users of this app, and 6 other citizen science project leaders to understand how distributed collaboration mediated by this app differed from collaborative practices of Non Water Reporter users. We found that distributed collaboration was an important goal for both user groups, however, the tasks that support these collaboration activities differed for the two user groups.
Recommended Citation
Srishti Gupta, Julia Jablonski, Chun-Hua Tsai, and John M. Carroll. 2022. Instagram of Rivers: Facilitating Distributed Collaboration in Hyperlocal Citizen Science. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW1, Article 97 (April2022), 22 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3512944
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