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IDENTIFICATION

Participant's homepage

Infrastructure: Zooniverse
Developed with: CartoDB

Start date : 2012/10/04

Beta start date : N/A
End date : Still open.

Subject

Natural sciences > zoology (nature/conservation)
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⇳ Description Bat Detective is an Zooniverse citizen science project which asks the public to turn detective to find bat calls in audio recordings across the world ➠ Purpose Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes. ? Research question Calls that bats use for socialising are not used for echolocation but communication, and these calls tend to be lower in frequency and have a more complex structure. Only under a third of all the echolocation calls of bats worldwide are known and even less is understood about social calls. Perhaps only 5% of all species social calls have been recorded.

TEAM

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University College London

Project team page http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science Leader: Kate Jones Institution: University College London Partner institutions: Zoological Society of London, The Bat Conservation Trust, BatLife Europe, University of Auckland, the Citizen Science Alliance. Contact: Bat detect team on twitter https://twitter.com/batdetect

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data interpretation
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: crowdsourcing

GAMING GENRE NONE
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING

THINKING

SENSING

GAMING

◉ Tasks description Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in. ⤯ Interaction with objects The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings. ▣ Interface

Data type to manipulate: sound
interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
Interface usability: rather easy to use

GUIDANCE

Tutorial: ✓
Peer to peer guidance: Somewhat
Training sequence: Somewhat

FEEDBACK ON

Individual performance: Somewhat
Collective performance: Somewhat
Research progress: Somewhat

❂ Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY TOOLS

Communication: website, blog, other
Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other
Member profiles:: N/A
Member profile elements:

NEWS & EVENTS

Main news site: http://blog.batdetective.org/
Frequency of project news updates: less than weekly
Type of events: other
Frequency of events : 5

⏣ Community description

Community size (volounteers based) 671
Role:
Interaction form: Twitter and http://talk.batdetective.org/
Has official community manager(s): N/A
Has team work N/A
Other: Blog contains most of the news/community updates. There was a google hangout with the bat detective team on 20/12/2013. Although there is some community participation in the comments, the blog is rather quiet(the last post was made on 7/2/2013). The twitter feed (@batdetect) is more active, as is the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/batdetective).
Community led additions:

Other information

PROJECT[edit source]

Url:http://www.batdetective.org/
Start date: 2012/10/04
End date: Still open
Infrastructure: Zooniverse

TEAM[edit source]

Official team page:http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science
Leader: Kate Jones
Institution: University College London
Partner institutions: Zoological Society of London, The Bat Conservation Trust, BatLife Europe, University of Auckland, the Citizen Science Alliance.
Contact: https://twitter.com/batdetect
Main location: University College London

PROJECT DEFINITION[edit source]

Subject[edit source]

Natural sciences > zoology (nature/conservation)

Description[edit source]

Bat Detective is an Zooniverse citizen science project which asks the public to turn detective to find bat calls in audio recordings across the world

Purpose.[edit source]

Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes.

Research question.[edit source]

Calls that bats use for socialising are not used for echolocation but communication, and these calls tend to be lower in frequency and have a more complex structure. Only under a third of all the echolocation calls of bats worldwide are known and even less is understood about social calls. Perhaps only 5% of all species social calls have been recorded.

ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS[edit source]

Tasks description.[edit source]

Participants are required to differentiate between a bat and a non-bat call, the different types of calls and what sequence a call belongs in.

Interaction with system objects.[edit source]

The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings.

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Participation typology

Contribution type:


Computing:	NO	Thinking:	YES
Sensing:	NO	Gaming:	NO

Crowdsourcing	☑	Distributed intelligence	☐
Participatory science	☐	Extreme citizen science	☐
Science outreach	☐

Data collection	☐
Data analysis	☐
Data interpretation	☑--------

Gaming

Genre:

Gaming elements:

Interface

Data type to manipulate: sound

interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
Interface usability: rather easy to use

Member profiles::N/A
Member profile elements:

ABOUT GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK[edit source]

Guidance

Feedback on

Tutorial and documentation:	YES
Training sequence:	SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance:	SOMEWHAT

individual performance:	Somewhat
collective performance:	Somewhat
research progress:	Somewhat

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COMMUNITY[edit source]

Tools	News & Events
Communication: website, blog, other Social Network: Twitter, Facebook, other	Main news site: http://blog.batdetective.org/ Frequency of project news updates: less than weekly Type of events: other Frequency of events : 5
Community description
Community size (volounteers based): 671 Role: Interaction form:Twitter and http://talk.batdetective.org/ Has official community manager(s): N/A Has team work N/A

Other information about community: Blog contains most of the news/community updates. There was a google hangout with the bat detective team on 20/12/2013. Although there is some community participation in the comments, the blog is rather quiet(the last post was made on 7/2/2013). The twitter feed (@batdetect) is more active, as is the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/batdetective).
Community led additions: