CTTCS 2012 - 2012 International Workshop on Computational Tools and Techniques for Citizen Science and Scientific Outreach

Rafael Santos (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil), M. Jordan Raddick and Ani Thakar (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Architectures for scientific data distribution for public use; Architectures and systems for volunteer data collection and reporting; Models, algorithms and applications for knowledge extraction from volunteer-obtained data; Models, algorithms and applications to enable the most skillful and enthusiastic volunteers to contribute in deeper ways; Data validation techniques; Novel techniques and tools for user engagement; Specialized hardware or user interfaces for data acquisition by volunteers; Analysis of interaction of volunteers with the project (logging, traffic metrics, etc.); Metrics and techniques for measuring the impact if citizen science for the research and for the volunteers; Security and privacy issues and solutions.