Galileo: Citizen-led Experimentation Using a Social Computing System

要旨

People have scientific questions and folk theories; yet most lack the expertise to investigate them. How might people transform their questions into experiments that inform both science and their lives? This paper demonstrates how online volunteers can collaboratively design and run experiments using a novel social computing system. The Galileo system provides procedural support using three techniques: 1) experimental design workflow that provides just-in-time training; 2) review workflow with scaffolded questions; and 3) automated routines for data collection. We present two empirical investigations: a study and a field deployment with online volunteers across 16 and 8 countries respectively. People generated structurally-sound experiments on personally meaningful topics; three communities ran a week-long experiment each. We identify two key challenges for citizen-led experimentation—supporting different expertise levels and providing recruitment guidance—and provide specific suggestions from the social computing literature. Our results highlight the promise and challenges of citizen-led knowledge work like experimentation.

著者
Vineet Pandey
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Tushar Koul
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Chen Yang
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Daniel McDonald
UCSD, La Jolla, California, United States
Mad Price. Ball
Open Humans Foundation, Sanford, North Carolina, United States
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Paris, France
Rob Knight
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Scott Klemmer
UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445668

論文URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445668

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会議: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

セッション: Various People

[A] Paper Room 13, 2021-05-11 17:00:00~2021-05-11 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 13, 2021-05-12 01:00:00~2021-05-12 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 13, 2021-05-12 09:00:00~2021-05-12 11:00:00
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