Citizen Science App Packages Add-Ons

In addtion to the SPOTTERON App Package, additional components can be added to extend the scope of the toolkit with project-spcific functionalities.

Info-Panels for in-App Information and Glossary Pages

In the SPOTTERON Info-Panels feature, additional information and pictures can be displayed on-click in lists and input fields directly in the data submission dialogue. The project-specific implementation is based on SPOTTERON Package B and the project team can self-edit content of infopanels via the project website's administration interface.

Project-specific Intro-Slides on App start-up

When opening up an App the first time, a number of Intro Slides are welcoming new users and give tips about how to use the app. As a graphic design task, we can create your project-specific customized Intro Slides in all included languages of your App and integrate them in the Apps for Android and IOS.

Additional translations & languages for Apps

Extending to the two languages already included in each basic package, we can implement an unlimited number of translations in your project's Apps. During the App development process, we provide project-specific translation files for your project with all yet untranslated strings included and implement the languages for the release.

Regional or Country-based Access to Data & Communication Tools

If your project's scale integrates more partner organisations on regional or national level, the SPOTTERON Project Internationalization Toolkit enables regional or country-based data access, community administration and the use of the integrated communication tools. This allows project partners to independently manage and download data and to communicate in the own native language with the local user community.

Media: Audio Feature for the live recording and playback of audio in Apps

The project-specific integration of Audio Recording feature enables to attach audio as recording or audio file directly in a user data submission and features a playback component for the detail views of data submissions in the Apps (Android, IOS, Web-App). Audio data is included in the administrator data downlods and in the project-specific API Add-On.

Media: Multiple Images Upload per Data Submission

For project with extended need of photo or image submissions and media data volumes, the Multiple Images feature is enabling participants to add a multitude of images one data submission at once in an easy-to-use interface. The feature includes an extended data upload system for data streaming and background upload of contributions to provide a high level user experience and technical quality. The Mutlitple Images feature comes with an image gallery, integrated in the detail view of each user submission in the Apps.

 

User Roles with specific options per role in data submission dialog

Project User Roles can be utilized in a project to identify different target groups and to display data input options specific to a participant's user role in the App. The project-specific setup of User roles can be used to reflect various levels of knowledge, experience, or different areas of interest for each user, and provide data submission categories specialized for each user role. User role identifiers are inclued in the export and the API for each data point.

Data Scoring and Custom Data Visualizations

When participants enter options in the data submission process, the Data Scoring enables the calculation of a score based on a customizeable formula for the data point. This can include positive/negative weightend values for inputs as well as median, avarage, and other mathematical operations, and is used in projects to calcualte a quality score of an observation of or a location. The results can be integrated in a project-spcific data visualization as an interactive  map overlay. 

Live Route Recording

The add-on enables live route recording via the device's GPS/Location service in a project's App Toolkit. Participants can ongoingly contribute data as spots while recording a live route, and the Apps can also display pre- and post-surveys before and after the route recording to gather data about a user's experience. Route data is available for the project teams in the widely interoperable GEOJson format as download.

Satellite Map Overlay

Displaying a Satellite Map Overlay can help participants to submit data on the right location, espcially on more off-areas in which regular maps do not display many details. In other projects, the Satellite Feature Add-On is used in combination with Spatial Data Input, having users of the App Toolkit draw areas, lines, and polygon shapes on the map during the data input. The add-on consists of the usage costs for satellite provided by an European map provider for improved data protection and data ethics.

Project-specific Data fields on User Profiles with Consent & GDPR Compliance

Background information on users can sometimes be very important for a research project. The add-on allows projects to include a range of project-specific questions on each user profile, which users can answer and give their consent for sharing the data with the project's team.  

Co-Creation Package

Additional co-creation cycles can implement user feedback for input options in the data input dialogue of the apps of the project in an open process. A first prototype version of the app toolkit can be presented to user groups, feedback gathered, changes identified and new app versions are produced to include the co-creation outcomes.

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.

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  • 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. 

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