Gravity Spy is live!

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2016-10-24 07:27

The system has gone live. A few stories about the launch:

Keynote address at the Chais Conference 2016

Submitted by crowston on Sat, 2016-04-09 10:56

On 16 February 2016, I gave a keynote address at the Chais Conference 2016 with the title "Citizen Science: Learning to effectively contribute in virtual organizations". A recording of the talk is available on YouTube if you don't see if below.

“Guess what! You’re the first to see this event”: Increasing Contribution to Online Production Communities

NSF INSPIRE project funded

Submitted by crowston on Wed, 2015-10-07 21:37

An NSF INSPIRE project on which I'm a co-PI (along with Carsten Østerlund) was just funded! The project award 15-47880, titled "INSPIRE: Teaming Citizen Science with Machine Learning to Deepen LIGO's View of the Cosmos". The project, joint with Northwestern University, Cal State Fullerton and the Adler Planetarium, will develop a novel citizen science project to classify glitches from the LIGO gravitational wave detector.

Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence published!

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2015-09-11 10:58

The Springer has been published including an article by me on and another on

Which Way Did They Go? Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse

Jackson, C. B., Østerlund, C., Maidel, V., Crowston, K., & Mugar, G.. (2016). Which Way Did They Go? Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse. In 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2835197

Being Present in Online Communities: Learning in Citizen Science

Mugar, G., Østerlund, C., Jackson, C., & Crowston, K.. (2015). Being Present in Online Communities: Learning in Citizen Science. In 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1145/2768545.2768555

Surveying the citizen science landscape

Wiggins, A., & Crowston, K.. (2015). Surveying the citizen science landscape. First Monday, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i1.5520

Planet Hunters and Seafloor Explorers: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Through Practice Proxies in Online Citizen Science

Mugar, G., Østerlund, C., Hassman, K. D. V., Crowston, K., & Jackson, C. B.. (2014). Planet Hunters and Seafloor Explorers: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Through Practice Proxies in Online Citizen Science. In 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2014). https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531721

Exploring data quality in games with a purpose

Prestopnik, N., Crowston, K., & Wang, J.. (2014). Exploring data quality in games with a purpose. In iConference. https://doi.org/10.9776/14066

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