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    Android Roadkill is a citizen science app that allows users to record and submit wildlife roadkill observations from their smartphones. It aims to increase participation in roadkill data collection by making the submission process easier and faster through a simple 5-field interface. The app uses GPS to geotag observations and can work offline by saving data to the device to be uploaded later when internet is available. It is an open source project available on GitHub and its developers hope to add additional gamification features and modularity to share data with other similar platforms in the future.

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    Android Roadkill is a citizen science app that allows users to record and submit wildlife roadkill observations from their smartphones. It aims to increase participation in roadkill data collection by making the submission process easier and faster through a simple 5-field interface. The app uses GPS to geotag observations and can work offline by saving data to the device to be uploaded later when internet is available. It is an open source project available on GitHub and its developers hope to add additional gamification features and modularity to share data with other similar platforms in the future.

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    Android Roadkill

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    Android Roadkill is a citizen science app that allows users to record and submit wildlife roadkill observations from their smartphones. It aims to increase participation in roadkill data collection by making the submission process easier and faster through a simple 5-field interface. The app uses GPS to geotag observations and can work offline by saving data to the device to be uploaded later when internet is available. It is an open source project available on GitHub and its developers hope to add additional gamification features and modularity to share data with other similar platforms in the future.

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    Android Roadkill, a citizen science app

    California Geographical Society, Annual Meeting 2012

    Alex Mandel
    Co-Author: Paul Haverkamp
    Geography Graduate Group University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 aimandel@ucdavis.edu

    April 28, 2012

    Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Non-commercial

    Citizen Science aka Crowdsourcing


    Leveraging the People
    Quantity Existing Skills Geographic Spread

    Classics
    eBird Frogwatch Bucket Brigade

    New Comers
    Public Laboratory OpenStreetMap Wikipedia

    Quantity vs. Quality

    Dawn of the Ubiquitous Computing Age

    100s of millions of smartphones & tablets Cheap wireless ...in the hands of youth

    Wildlife Crossing

    http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/

    Roadkill

    Proof of Concept Smartphone application Android Platform


    Number of Potential Users Signicantly lower barrier to develop

    Goals
    Increase Participation Make submission easier and faster

    Features

    Place Matters
    GPS location from Photo(Geo-tagged) GPS or Map

    Simple - 5 Fields or less quick data entry (2 min or less) Auto-completion of Species Works Oine
    Save data on Device Upload later when you have an internet connection.

    Map & List of your data

    Open Source

    https://github.com/wildintellect/android-roadkill

    Whats missing?, but planned!

    Oine Maps with OpenStreetMap Modularity to work with any similar website (A Common Interface for Citizen Observations) Enticement
    Gamication
    Fold-it - Protein folding puzzles Phylo - Genome matching puzzles Map Attack - The world is the game board

    Make participating directly useful to the users.

    Community Engagement
    DavisWiki Openstreetmap

    Lessons & the Future

    Finding Programmers who care. Standard Web API for devices would really help. Sharing data widely so that others share with you.

    Special Thanks
    Fraser Shilling, Dave Waetjen, Joey Ng Data Contributors & Users Alpha version ready for testers, go to
    http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/android

    Questions?

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