CTTCS 2013 - International Workshop on Computational Tools and Techniques for Citizen Science and Scientific Outreach

Public participation in scientific research takes many forms: participation of volunteers in citizen science projects, monitoring of natural resources and phenomena, volunteering of computational resources for distributed data analysis tasks, etc.
The purpose of this session is to serve as a forum for discussion of the computational tools, techniques and case studies of applications that enable active public participation in scientific research. Such tools could include data access interfaces, analysis tools, and discussion platforms.
Of particular interest are applications that showcase the benefits of letting the public use the professional resources (i.e., the same data and computational resources that the scientists have access to) and return something back to the research behind it, such as applications that go beyond simple publication of scientific data or applications that use novel methods for user engagement. Examples of applications for scientific outreach that use specialized computational tools or techniques, and/or educational approaches, are also of interest.
We encourage the participation of both researchers, designers and developers of citizen science tools and techniques and researchers from any area that could benefit from involving citizen scientists.
Topics
Applications of citizen science (with emphasis on computational tools and techniques).
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.
Session Organizers
Rafael Santos (rafael.santos-AT-inpe.br, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)
M. Jordan Raddick (raddick-AT-pha.jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Ani Thakar (thakar-AT-pha.jhu.edu, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Program Committee
André R. A. Gregio (Center for Information Technology Renato Archer, Brazil)
Francisco Vilar Brasileiro (Campina Grande Federal University, Brazil)
Marcos Cordeiro d'Ornellas (Santa Maria Federal University, Brazil)
Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar (National Institute for Space Research, Brazil)
Robinson Noronha (Federal Technological University of Paraná, Brazil)