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IDENTIFICATION

Participant's homepage
Start date : 2012/10/04
  • Beta start date : N/A
  • End date : Still open.
Subject

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.

TEAM

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University College London

Project 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:

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data interpretation
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing


GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING
THINKING
SENSING
GAMING

Tasks description

Interaction with objects

Interface

  • Data type to manipulate: sound
  • interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
  • Interface usability: easy to use

GUIDANCE

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

COMMUNITY TOOLS
  • Communication:
  • Social Network: N/A
  • Member profiles:: N/A
  • Member profile elements:
NEWS & EVENTS
  • Main news site:
  • Frequency of project news updates: N/A
  • Type of events:
  • Frequency of events :

Community description

  • Community size (volounteers based) 671
  • Role:
  • Interaction form:
  • Has official community manager(s): N/A
  • Has team work N/A
  • Other:
  • Community led additions:


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.

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


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Grey typology Participation typology Contribution type:
Computing: NO Thinking: YES
Sensing: NO Gaming: NO
Crowdsourcing Distributed intelligence
Participatory science Extreme citizen science
Science outreach
Data collection
Data analysis
Data interpretation --------
Gaming
Genre: Gaming elements:
Interface
Data type to manipulate: sound interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
Interface usability: 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
individual performance: Somewhat
collective performance: Somewhat
research progress: Somewhat

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COMMUNITY


Tools News & Events

Communication:
Social Network: N/A

Main news site:
Frequency of project news updates: N/A
Type of events:
Frequency of events :

Community description

Community size (volounteers based): 671
Role: Interaction form:
Has official community manager(s): N/A
Has team work N/A

Other information about community:
Community led additions:

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION




batdetective.jpg Yes [[has completion level::Low]

http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science

University College London


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

data interpretation

crowdsourcing sound, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no


cool/attractive easy to use yes N/A weak N/A N/A N/A

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671 N/A


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