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| |field_participant_task_description=Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in. | | |field_participant_task_description=Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in. |
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Cs Portal > List of citizen science projects > Bat detective - (2013/12/09)
THIS PAGE DESCRIBE A CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT
Start date : 2012/10/04
- Beta start date : N/A
- End date : Still open.
⇳ Description
Bat Detective is an Zooniverse citizen science project which asks the public to turn detective to find bat calls in audio recordings across the world.
➠ Purpose
Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes.
? Research question
Calls that bats use for socialising are not used for echolocation but communication, and these calls tend to be lower in frequency and have a more complex structure. Only under a third of all the echolocation calls of bats worldwide are known and even less is understood about social calls. Perhaps only 5% of all species social calls have been recorded.
MAIN TEAM LOCATION
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University College London
CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data interpretation
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing
GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE
◉ Tasks description
Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in.
⤯ Interaction with objects
The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings.
▣ Interface
- Data type to manipulate: sound
- interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
- Interface usability: rather easy to use
GUIDANCE
- Tutorial: ✓
- Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
- Training sequence: Somewhat
FEEDBACK ON
- Individual performance: Somewhat
- Collective performance: Somewhat
- Research progress: Somewhat
❂ Feedback and guidance description
COMMUNITY TOOLS
- Communication: website, blog, other
- Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other
- Member profiles:: N/A
- Member profile elements:
Other information
PROJECT
Url:http://www.batdetective.org/
Start date: 2012/10/04
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: Zooniverse
TEAM
Official team page:http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science
Leader: Kate Jones
Institution: University College London
Partner institutions: Zoological Society of London, The Bat Conservation Trust, BatLife Europe, University of Auckland, the Citizen Science Alliance.
Contact: https://twitter.com/batdetect
Main location: University College London
PROJECT DEFINITION
Subject
Natural sciences > zoology (nature/conservation)
Description
Bat Detective is an Zooniverse citizen science project which asks the public to turn detective to find bat calls in audio recordings across the world.
Purpose.
Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes.
Research question.
Calls that bats use for socialising are not used for echolocation but communication, and these calls tend to be lower in frequency and have a more complex structure. Only under a third of all the echolocation calls of bats worldwide are known and even less is understood about social calls. Perhaps only 5% of all species social calls have been recorded.
ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS
Tasks description.
Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in.
Interaction with system objects.
The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings.
| Grey typology |
Participation typology |
Contribution type: |
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| Computing: |
NO |
Thinking: |
YES |
| Sensing: |
NO |
Gaming: |
NO |
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| Crowdsourcing |
☑ |
Distributed intelligence |
☐ |
| Participatory science |
☐ |
Extreme citizen science |
☐ |
| Science outreach |
☐ |
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| Data collection |
☐ |
| Data analysis |
☐ |
| Data interpretation |
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| Gaming |
| Genre: |
Gaming elements: |
| Interface |
| Data type to manipulate: sound |
interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
Interface usability: rather easy to use |
Member profiles::N/A
Member profile elements: |
ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK
| Guidance |
Feedback on |
| Tutorial and documentation: |
YES |
| Training sequence: |
SOMEWHAT |
| Peer to peer guidance: |
SOMEWHAT |
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| individual performance: |
Somewhat |
| collective performance: |
Somewhat |
| research progress: |
Somewhat |
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| Tools |
News & Events |
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Communication: website, blog, other
Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other
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Main news site: http://blog.batdetective.org/
Frequency of project news updates: less than weekly
Type of events: other
Frequency of events : 5
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| Community description |
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Community size (volounteers based): 671
Role:
Interaction form:Reddit, twitter and http://talk.batdetective.org/
Has official community manager(s): N/A
Has team work N/A
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Other information about community: Blog contains most of the news/community updates. There was a google hangout with the bat detective team on 20/12/2013. Although there is some community participation in the comments, the blog is rather quiet(the last post was made on 7/2/2013). The twitter feed (@batdetect) is more active, as is the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/batdetective). The team also held a popular reddit AMA (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pvge6/we_are_the_zooniverse_the_worlds_most_awesome_and/)
Community led additions:
OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION
batdetective.jpg
Yes
[[has completion level::High]
http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science
Bat detect team on twitter
University College London
https://twitter.com/batdetect
Yes
zoology
Natural sciences
nature/conservation
Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes.
Calls that bats use for socialising are not used for echolocation but communication, and these calls tend to be lower in frequency and have a more complex structure. Only under a third of all the echolocation calls of bats worldwide are known and even less is understood about social calls. Perhaps only 5% of all species social calls have been recorded.
Bat detective
Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in.
data interpretation
crowdsourcing
sound, other:
Thinking: yes
Computing: no
Sensing: no
Gaming: no
The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings.
cool/attractive
rather easy to use
yes
N/A
weak
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
website, blog, other
Twitter, Facebook, other
other
5
http://blog.batdetective.org/
671
less than weekly
Blog contains most of the news/community updates. There was a google hangout with the bat detective team on 20/12/2013. Although there is some community participation in the comments, the blog is rather quiet(the last post was made on 7/2/2013). The twitter feed (@batdetect) is more active, as is the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/batdetective). The team also held a popular reddit AMA (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1pvge6/we_are_the_zooniverse_the_worlds_most_awesome_and/)
Reddit, twitter and http://talk.batdetective.org/
N/A
Reddit AMA, various science blogs and an appearance on BBC news
High
The signup/login process is not working as of 9/12/2013 on firefox, chrome or safari. The project does not look particularly active at the moment.
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