Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science – A Study of Performers and Talkers

A paper by Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Roesch and Nigel Shadbolt, on online citizen science projects, in which volunteers help solve problems in a wide range of scientific areas using their own I.T.

The authors describe a research project to examine whether the volunteers’ participation in online discussion forums influences the likelihood of a solution being found to the problem.

http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/363608/1/ci2014-Zooniverse_tinati_et_al.pdf