SPOTTERON

Date: 18th of February 2016
Location: Austrian Citizen Science Conference 2016 - “Citizen Science - Quo vadis?"
Topic: We are the Citizen Scientists - Participation from the user's point of view

Project administrators and moderators can contact users privately to get in contact and provide feedback.

Due to the integrated digital-social Community Toolkit, users find an active and welcoming environment for participation.

An increasing counter of all combined data contributions by the community in the top area of the project App

A User-Profile panel with an ever-growing collection of all contributions of a user in the project's App

Option for project administrators to highlight core data entries of the project or user contributions with high quality or importance

Displaying chronological data from Timeline observations in the form of line charts and statistics in the detail-view of a Spot

Creating ongoing chronological observations of the same location or object for change-data recording and user data diary

Possibility to let participants input a custom Spot name for their observations for increased identification and information

Earned by ongoing participation, Badges are rewards for the user for active involvement and are visible to all connections in the user community.