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
Live Route Recording
Satellite Map Overlay
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.
Projects & Apps open for Co-Use on SPOTTERON
ArtSpots
With the COSEA App, Citizen Scientists can observe marine environments, document coastal habitats or species, and report on pollution, infrastructure and the blue economy. Their contributions on the map and activity in the app will help scientists better understand the impacts and drivers of marine factors to protect and foster a healthy relationship between humans and seas.
COSEA | Collaboration for Effective Sea Action
NatureSpots is a non-commercial and free project to discover nature together. In the app, nature photos and sightings of animals, plants or mushrooms can be shared with the community on the map. The app is a new initiative for observing nature and taking part is very simple and straightforward. The app is free of advertising, does not track users and takes digital privacy seriously.
NatureSpots
The new citizen participation uses "Citizen Science" in their hometown and nationwide to get User's feedback on places. As a result, citizens are empowered to become active in a city worth living in to collect and share data themselves and to interact with scientists. This enables them to recognize the consequences of sealing, heat, water shortages, and a lack of biodiversity, and generally, how places in their own environment affect us all.
CIVO Citizen Voice
The IPM-Popillia Horizon 2020 project aims to address the challenge of a new risk to plant health in Europe's agriculture and food safety: the invasion of the Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica. This invasive species was introduced accidentally to mainland Europe in 2014 and can quickly spread by transportation and trade. As a species with a wide range of feeding plants, P. japonica threatens the entire agricultural sector, urban landscapes, and biodiversity in invaded areas.
IPM Popillia | Integrated Pest Management of the Japanese Beetle
Fridays for Future see itself as a horizontal, grassroots grassroots movement that acts apolitically and refers to science for the facts. To engage the global population more, this app was developed using SPOTTERON. The aim is to find out how the population perceives the climate crisis and which positive and negative emotions are associated with specific topics related to biodiversity and climate crisis.
FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE - Climate App
