TY - GEN
T1 - Crowdsourcing rare events
T2 - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2014
AU - Tapia, Andrea H.
AU - LaLone, Nicolas
AU - MacDonald, Elizabeth
AU - Priedhorsky, Reid
AU - Hall, Michelle
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This research presents a centralized boundary object website and mobile app focused on allowing participants to participate in developing an early warning system through space weather and the beauty of the aurora borealis. Because of the beauty and majesty of auroral activity, people will seek information about when and where these unpredictable events occur. This activity, commonly referred to as nowcasting, can be combined with scientific data collected from observatories and satellites and serve as an early warning system with potentially far greater accuracy and timeliness than the current state of the art. We believe that long-term engagement with a citizen science tool will help bridge the many social worlds surrounding the aurora borealis and lead to the development of an early warning system that may correlate the visibility of the northern lights to violent space weather. We hope this will lead to other real time crowdsourced early warning systems in the future.
AB - This research presents a centralized boundary object website and mobile app focused on allowing participants to participate in developing an early warning system through space weather and the beauty of the aurora borealis. Because of the beauty and majesty of auroral activity, people will seek information about when and where these unpredictable events occur. This activity, commonly referred to as nowcasting, can be combined with scientific data collected from observatories and satellites and serve as an early warning system with potentially far greater accuracy and timeliness than the current state of the art. We believe that long-term engagement with a citizen science tool will help bridge the many social worlds surrounding the aurora borealis and lead to the development of an early warning system that may correlate the visibility of the northern lights to violent space weather. We hope this will lead to other real time crowdsourced early warning systems in the future.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905852081
SN - 9780692211946
T3 - ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 135
EP - 144
BT - ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - The Pennsylvania State University
Y2 - 1 May 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -