Community Features

A social community with a news-feed and modern communication tools is built directly in your Citizen Science apps from the start.

User Profile

Representation of the user with basic information, optional fields, and profile picture

Newsfeed

Chronological list of activity notifications and network news for staying informed

Comments

Enabling direct communication via the comment form on every user contribution

Likes / Hearts

Quick appreciation by giving a heart on spots or comments with a simple click/touch

Push Notifications

Users receive a notification directly on their phone for new messages and user mentions

User Mentions

Writing @username in a comment results in a push notification sent to the tagged user.

Creating connections

Users can follow each other to create community networks. Connected users can see their activities in the newsfeed.

Community Leaderboards

Time-based leaderboards of most active users for motivation, contests, or rewards

Badges & Achievements

Special rewards for ongoing user activity with popups displaying creative icons and witty messages

Emojis

Users can use Emojis in comments and for observation descriptions. For project administrators, push messages are also compatible with Emojis.

User Search

Users can search for other users in the App's community based on the user's name or optional profile information.

Privacy & Safety features

A set of integrated features allows reporting and blocking of community content for users for a safe community environment.

Short News

  • New study from BiciZen project: "BiciZen: Lessons in the Development of a Crowdsourcing Mobile App to Make Cities More Bikeable" published in Journal of Participatory Research Methods. More studies available under the publication page here.

    in Shortnews
  • Roadkill project has made wonderful short videos for the citizen scientists! The videos include the Roadkill App functions regarding how to confirm & comment on the spots and how to best take the photos for the project. The videos (in German) are available in the "Österreich forscht" blog here. 

    in Shortnews

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