TY - GEN
T1 - Harnessing Twitter and crowdsourcing to augment aurora forecasting
AU - LaLone, Nicolas
AU - Tapia, Andrea
AU - MacDonald, Elizabeth
AU - Case, Nathan
AU - Hall, Michelle
AU - Clayton, Jessica
AU - Heavner, Matthew
PY - 2015/2/28
Y1 - 2015/2/28
N2 - The aurora borealis and aurora australis are beautiful space weather driven events whose sighting is typically based on luck given that forecasting is not spatially or temporally precise. To help increase the accuracy and timeliness of auroral forecasting, we have designed a multi-faceted system called Aurorasaurus. This system allows crisis management specialists to test reactions to rare event notifications, space weather scientists to get direct sighting information of auroras (complete with pictures), and science education researchers to evaluate the impact of educational materials about the aurora and the physics surrounding this unique phenomenon. Through manual tweet verification and directly reported aurora borealis or aurora australis sightings, everyday users help make space weather and aurora forecasting more accurate.
AB - The aurora borealis and aurora australis are beautiful space weather driven events whose sighting is typically based on luck given that forecasting is not spatially or temporally precise. To help increase the accuracy and timeliness of auroral forecasting, we have designed a multi-faceted system called Aurorasaurus. This system allows crisis management specialists to test reactions to rare event notifications, space weather scientists to get direct sighting information of auroras (complete with pictures), and science education researchers to evaluate the impact of educational materials about the aurora and the physics surrounding this unique phenomenon. Through manual tweet verification and directly reported aurora borealis or aurora australis sightings, everyday users help make space weather and aurora forecasting more accurate.
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U2 - 10.1145/2685553.2702671
DO - 10.1145/2685553.2702671
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84939174347
SN - 9781450329460
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 9
EP - 12
BT - CSCW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 Companion
Y2 - 14 March 2015 through 18 March 2015
ER -