Founding the Foundry - Citizen Science: New Agendas, Broader Impacts

College of Science

Speaker

Professor Jennifer Preece

Speaker's Biography

Jennifer Preece is a Professor and Dean Emerita in the Information School at the University of Maryland, USA. She is particularly interested in how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design can support communities to collect and document biodiversity and environmental data through citizen science projects. Currently she is the principal investigator on a project about community driven environmental projects, funded by the US National Science Foundation. She is a SIGCHI Fellow, author of a broad collection of published articles, and co-author of Interaction Design: Beyond HCI (4th ed., 2015).

From: 26 Jul 2018, noon
To: 26 Jul 2018, 1:30 p.m.
Location: Mall Room, Taliesin Create, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea

Join us for the latest in the series of the Founding the Foundry lectures as we welcome Ben Shneiderman and Jennifer Preece to the Computational Foundry for a two-part Founding the Foundry lecture. Jenny will give a talk on Thursday 26th July, 12:30pm (lunch from 12:00pm)

Citizen science employs design methods to organize communities of various sizes to provide reliable and trusted data that creates measurable and meaningful impacts. Compelling examples drawn from biodiversity and environmental science will illustrate new paradigms for doing research in which experts partner with citizens to exploit digital technologies to achieve scientific and broader societal impacts. New agendas that arise from citizen science include resolving the tension between encouraging public participation and ensuring reliable and trusted data.


Contact: Julia Harrison (Email: j.f.harrison@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792604347


Event created by: j.f.harrison