Graduate Research Survey: Demographics of Zooniverse Space Science Projects

• by citsciresearch

  I am a master's student conducting research on the demographics, participation habits, and overall science involvement of participants in Zooniverse's various space-related citizen science projects. Citizen science empowers research to process far greater amounts of data than would otherwise be possible. It has the potential to grow and become a more commonly used asset in the space sciences. I hope to explore further applications of citizen science projects, so having information about those who are currently involved in these projects will help to show where and how they can best be used. I have created a survey accessible at the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15kyqF_wFag9CDn6SZlMnSXexf0ok6H52GMIFMWOO1Vg/viewform It will take no more than 15 minutes. Please share the link with any other Zooniverse volunteers you might know. Your time and responses are greatly appreciated.

  Posted December 18, 2014 6:13 PM

• by DZM admin

  A note to zooites: We have reached out to Brittany ( @citsciresearch ) to learn a bit more about what she's doing. We'll let you know once we get a few more things established!

  Posted December 18, 2014 10:12 PM

• by citsciresearch

  Thanks to the Zooniverse team and everyone who has responded so far! To summarize, I'm particularly interested in determining whether technology use trends would suggest citizen science efforts be expanded to mobile apps in addition to browser games, but I am investigating several aspects of citizen science and how we can use it more frequently and effectively in space sciences. I'd also like to note that I've slightly updated the wording to take into account non-US respondents. This survey has passed IRB approval at George Washington University. I am also still looking for responses, so if you have a moment and haven't yet taken the survey, I'd really appreciate it. I plan on dropping back with the finished research once this is done. This is an independent study as part of my coursework so publication is a possibility but not definite.

  Posted January 24, 2015 8:09 PM

• by DZM admin

  Thanks for the further explanation, Brittany.

  We have no objections to anyone taking this survey, incidentally, so anyone who wants to should feel free. 😃

  Posted January 26, 2015 3:11 PM

• by hightower73

  I did this survey ages ago

  Posted January 26, 2015 4:26 PM

• by citsciresearch

  Thank you everyone who responded! The article containing this research has been published and you can read it here.

  Posted July 27, 2015 6:07 PM