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IDENTIFICATION

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* Developed with: Citizen science custom software

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⇳ Description Human Brain Cloud is a side project Kyle Gabler runs in his free time, originally created to teach myself web programming, but has become one of my favorite projects to tinker with.

As of nov. 5 2013, the system includes 612908 unique words and 7182694 connections. ➠ Purpose The main goal for the author was to learn something. ? Research question There is no research purpose associated as far as we can tell.

TEAM

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Project team page http://kylegabler.com/ Leader: Kyle Gabler Institution: Partner institutions: Contact:

USER TASKS

CONTRIBUTION TYPE: data collection
PARTICIPATION TYPOLOGY: distributed intelligence

GAMING GENRE Puzzle
GAMING ELEMENTS: NONE

COMPUTING

THINKING

SENSING

GAMING

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◉ Tasks description The participant is presented with a word. He/she then has to type in an associated word. ⤯ Interaction with objects

▣ Interface

* Data type to manipulate: text

* interface enjoyment: cool/attractive

* Interface usability: easy to use

GUIDANCE

GUIDANCE

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

FEEDBACK ON

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

❂ Feedback and guidance description

COMMUNITY

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NEWS & EVENTS

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Other information

#### PROJECT[edit source]

Url:http://www.humanbraincloud.com/
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#### TEAM[edit source]

Official team page:http://kylegabler.com/
Leader: Kyle Gabler

## PROJECT DEFINITION[edit source]

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### Description[edit source]

Human Brain Cloud is a side project Kyle Gabler runs in his free time, originally created to teach myself web programming, but has become one of my favorite projects to tinker with. As of nov. 5 2013, the system includes 612908 unique words and 7182694 connections.

### Purpose.[edit source]

The main goal for the author was to learn something.

### Research question.[edit source]

There is no research purpose associated as far as we can tell.

## ABOUT PARTICIPANT TASKS[edit source]

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### Tasks description.[edit source]

The participant is presented with a word. He/she then has to type in an associated word.

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Grey typology | Participation typology | Contribution type:

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

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Participatory science | ☐ | Extreme citizen science | ☐
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Data analysis | ☐
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Gaming
Genre: puzzle | Gaming elements: other
Interface
Data type to manipulate: text | interface enjoyment: cool/attractive
Interface usability: 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: | SOMEWHAT

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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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Community description

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Role: Interaction form:
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## OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION[edit source]

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http://kylegabler.com/

N/A The main goal for the author was to learn something. There is no research purpose associated as far as we can tell.

Human Brain Cloud The participant is presented with a word. He/she then has to type in an associated word. data collection None, but the user can look at Global statistics, i.e. strongest connections (teddy->bear, mona->lisa, ping->pong) and most submitted words (me, sex, money) distributed intelligence text, other: Thinking: yes Computing: no Sensing: no Gaming: somewhat other puzzle

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