Recruiting messages matter: Message strategies to attract citizen scientists

Lee, T. Kyoung, Crowston, K., Østerlund, C., & Miller, G.. (2017). Recruiting messages matter: Message strategies to attract citizen scientists. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026335

Gravity Spy: Humans, machines and the future of citizen science

Crowston, K., & The Gravity Spy Team. (2017). Gravity Spy: Humans, machines and the future of citizen science. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017). https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026329

Levels of trace data for social and behavioural science research

Crowston, K. (2017). Levels of trace data for social and behavioural science research. In S. Matei, Goggins, S., & Jullien, N. (Eds.), Big Data Factories: Collaborative Approaches. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59186-5_4

Roles and politeness behavior in community-based Free/Libre Open Source Software development

Wei, K., Crowston, K., Eseryel, Y., & Heckman, R.. (2017). Roles and politeness behavior in community-based Free/Libre Open Source Software development. Information And Management, 54(5), 573-582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.11.006

Manifesto on Engineering Academic Software (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252)

Allen, A., Aragon, C., Becker, C., Carver, J., Chiş, A., Combemale, B., et al.. (2016). Manifesto on Engineering Academic Software (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 16252). In Dagstuhl Manifestos. Wadern, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics.

Gamers, citizen scientists, and data: Exploring participant contributions in two games with a purpose

Prestopnik, N., Crowston, K., & Wang, J.. (2017). Gamers, citizen scientists, and data: Exploring participant contributions in two games with a purpose. Computers In Human Behavior, 68, 254–268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.11.035

Report from Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on "Engineering Academic Software"

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2016-11-18 09:03

A few months ago, I attended a Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on "Engineering Academic Software". The report from that workshop is now available online, DOI .

National Consortium for Data Science webinar: Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science:

Submitted by crowston on Sat, 2016-11-05 16:38

I recently gave a webinar for the National Consortium for Data Science on Humans, Machines, and the Future of Citizen Science.

Gravity Spy is live!

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2016-10-24 07:27

The system has gone live. A few stories about the launch:

Core-Periphery Communication and the Success of Free/Libre Open Source Software Projects

Crowston, K., & Shamshurin, I.. (2016). Core-Periphery Communication and the Success of Free/Libre Open Source Software Projects. In IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (45–56). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39225-7_4

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