Playing with science: gamised aspects of gamification found on the Online Citizen Science Project - Zooniverse

Anita Greenhill; Kate Holmes; Chris Lintott; Brooke Simmons; Karen Masters; Joe Cox; Gary Graham

Playing with science: gamised aspects of gamification found on the Online Citizen Science Project - Zooniverse

Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Chris Lintott, Brooke Simmons, Karen Masters, Joe Cox, Gary Graham

Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation

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Abstract

This paper examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement to consider how these forms of social interaction relate to the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform. Through an ethnographic study we reveal how participants of citizen science projects demonstrate aspects of ‘Gamised’ behaviour. ‘Gamised’ behaviour is defined as user generated play in a digital platform and contrasts to incidents of ‘gamification’ where a platform designer purposely embeds games into a computer platform. The paper therefore examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement and compares them with the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GAME-ON 2014
Publisher	EUROSIS
Pages	15-24
ISBN (Print)	9789077381854
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	GAMEON'2014 - University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Sep 2014 → 11 Sep 2014

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Conference	GAMEON'2014
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lincoln
Period	9/09/14 → 11/09/14

Keywords

Gamise
gamification
play
citizen science
Zooniverse

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