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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

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]

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### 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]

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### 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.

Grey typology | Participation typology | Contribution type:

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Computing: | NO | Thinking: | YES
Sensing: | NO | Gaming: | NO
| Crowdsourcing | ☑ | Distributed intelligence | ☐

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Participatory science | ☐ | Extreme citizen science | ☐
Science outreach | ☐ | |
| Data collection | ☐

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Data analysis | ☐
Data interpretation | ☑\

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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]

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Guidance | Feedback on

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| Tutorial and documentation: | YES

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Training sequence: | SOMEWHAT
Peer to peer guidance: | SOMEWHAT
| individual performance: | Somewhat

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collective performance: | Somewhat
research progress: | Somewhat

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## COMMUNITY[edit source]

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Tools | News & Events

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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:

## OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION[edit source]

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batdetective.jpg Yes [[has completion level::High]

http://www.batdetective.org/#!/about/team/science Bat detect team on twitter University College London https://twitter.com/batdetect

Yes zoology Natural sciences nature/conservation Mapping out bat ‘hotspots’ by using recordings and classifying the sounds they make for echolocation and social purposes. 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.

Bat detective 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. data interpretation

crowdsourcing sound, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: no

The user will categorise bat calls by listening to, and looking at visualisations of, bat call recordings. cool/attractive rather easy to use yes N/A weak N/A N/A N/A

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N/A website, blog, other Twitter, Facebook, other other 5 http://blog.batdetective.org/ 671 less than weekly 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).

Twitter and http://talk.batdetective.org/ N/A Various science blogs and an appearance on BBC news

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Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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. Bat detective team

➥ https://twitter.com/batdetect

. Bat detective team

https://twitter.com/batdetect

Bat Detective. Unknown

➥ http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/project.cfm?id=zooniverse-bat-detective

💬 Part of the Citizen Science section of the Scientific American Website

Bat Detective. Unknown

http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/project.cfm?id=zooniverse-bat-detective

Part of the Citizen Science section of the Scientific American Website

Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives'. Mark Kinver

➥ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19803167

Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives'. Mark Kinver

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19803167

Become a Bat Detective. Lily Bui

➥ http://scistarter.com/blog/2012/10/become-a-bat-detective/

Become a Bat Detective. Lily Bui

http://scistarter.com/blog/2012/10/become-a-bat-detective/