Testing a grassroots citizen science venture using open design, "the bee lab project"

Robert Daniel Phillips, Jesse Michael Blum, Michael A. Brown, Sharon L. Baurley
2014 Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI EA '14  
The Bee Lab project applies Citizen Science and Open Design to beekeeping, enabling participants to construct monitoring devices gathering reciprocal data, motivating participants and third parties. The presented approach uses design workshops to provide insight into the design of kits, user motivations, promoting reciprocal interests and address community problems. This paper signposts issues and opportunities in the process of designing Citizen Science tools for communities using Open Design
more » ... o solve individual problems, including: downloadable design for social/local change, laypeople creating technology and repairable kits.
doi:10.1145/2559206.2581134 dblp:conf/chi/PhillipsBBB14 fatcat:vjasxlggcfeprhsxs6bd46yryy