Playing with Science: Gamised Aspects of Gamification Found on the Online Citizen Science Project – Zooniverse

Anita Greenhill; Kate Holmes; Patrick Dickinson

Playing with Science: Gamised Aspects of Gamification Found on the Online Citizen Science Project – Zooniverse

Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes, Patrick Dickinson (Editor)

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This paper examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement to consider how these forms of social interaction relate to the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform. Through an ethnographic study we reveal how participants of citizen science projects demonstrate aspects of ‘Gamised’ behaviour. ‘Gamised’ behaviour is defined as user generated play in a digital platform and contrasts to incidents of ‘gamification’ where a platform designer purposely embeds games into a computer platform. The paper therefore examines incidents of play, socialisation, fun and amusement and compares them with the serious gaming elements of the citizen science platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation
Editors	Patrick Dickinson
Place of Publication	Lincoln
Publisher	Eurosis-ETI
Pages	15-24
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation - University of Lincoln: Lincoln, UK Duration: 9 Sept 2013 → 11 Sept 2014

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Conference	GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation
City	University of Lincoln: Lincoln, UK
Period	9/09/13 → 11/09/14

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Greenhill, A, Holmes, K & Dickinson, P (ed.) 2014, Playing with Science: Gamised Aspects of Gamification Found on the Online Citizen Science Project – Zooniverse. in P Dickinson (ed.), GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation. Eurosis-ETI, Lincoln, pp. 15-24, GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation, University of Lincoln: Lincoln, UK, 9/09/13.

Playing with Science: Gamised Aspects of Gamification Found on the Online Citizen Science Project – Zooniverse. / Greenhill, Anita; Holmes, Kate; Dickinson, Patrick (Editor).
GAME-ON 2014 15th International Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation. ed. / Patrick Dickinson. Lincoln: Eurosis-ETI, 2014. p. 15-24.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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