Creativity and learning in the Citizen Cyberlab Project. Address at Imperial College Festival of Science 2014 (http://www.cdtfestival.co.uk/)

1. Creative Science @ Citizen Cyberlab
Brian Fuchs & Margaret Gold
Science for All and
All for Science:

2. http://citizencyberlab.eu

3. Science FOR ALL
 Ubiquity
 Reuse/Remixing
 Cognitive Surplus

4. UBIQUITY

5. UBIQUITY

6. Dark SIDE of Ubiquity

7. REMIX
 Imperative Procedure -> Reusable Building Block
 Aka first order functions, scripting, macros
 Many examples in science and arts.
 Music: tracks
 Biology: Synthetic biology tools: biobots, gene databases,
etc.
 Physics: Gauss->Tensors, Rivet (CERN): publish, run, reuse
tunings
 Share solutions.
 Increase intelligent behaviour across users.
 Unstable but extremely powerful.

8. REMIX

9. REMIX

10. Cognitive Surplus

11. COGNITIVE SURPLUS

12. Citizen
Science

13. In the Beginning...

15. Before Computers

19. TODAY

20. The Internet Arrives

24. Personal Devices

27. SUPPORT LEARNING AND
CREATIVITY IN CITIZEN SCIENCE
Citizen Cyberlab

28. HTTP://CITIZENCYBERLAB.EU
Citizen Cyberlab

29. Citizen Cyberlab

30. Citizen Cyberlab Partners

31. • COMMUNITY MAPS
• CITIZEN GRID
• REDWIRE
Platforms

32. Open Community Maps

33. Open Community Maps
• GATHER, SHARE, VISUALISE LOCAL
KNOWLEDGE.
• EASY PROJECT SET-UP/ADMIN
• DESIGN MODELS /FORMS
• PUBLISH, REUSE VISUALISATIONS
• HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/EXCITES/OPENCOMMUNITYMAPS

34. Platform: Redwire.io

35. Redwire.io
• CREATE AND SHARE GAMES
• REMIX GAMES
• TRACK USER BEHAVIOUR
• HTTP://REDWIRE.IO

36. Redwire.io

37. Redwire.io: Computer shoot

38. REDWIRE

39. Citizen GRID

40. CitizenGrid
 Publish and share client-server and P2P applications
 Create e-Science applications using a mix of volunteer and
cloud computing resources.
 Virtualisation
 Open Virtualisation Format
 Enable citizen scientists to use compute intensive e-Science
applications.
 Imperial College
 http://citizencyberlab.eu/platforms/cloud-infrastructures/

41. Pilots
 Virtual Atom Smasher (CERN)
 Geotag-X: Collaborative Disaster
Mapping (UNITAR)
 Synthbio4all (CRI)
 ICT for Arctic indigenous communities
(UCL)

42. Pilots: Virtual Atom Smasher

43. Virtual Atom Smasher
 Run LHC simulations at home
 Create tunings to help scientists at CERN
 Interactively adjust simulations as they are running.
 https://github.com/wavesoft/VirtualAtomSmasher

44. Geotag-X
Source: National Geographic

45. " Disaster Mapping web application.
" Harvest media (photos, videos, audio) coming out of a
disaster
" Analyse media to produce structured and relevant data of
what is happening on the ground
" Share knowledge of experts with crowd to enable them to
perform analysis
" http://geotagx.org
Geotag-X
Source: National Geographic

46. Source: National Geographic
Geotag-X

47. Hero.Coli

48. HERO.COLI
 Crowdsourcing for synthetic biology projects

49. HERO.COLI
http://herocoli.com

51. Arctic ICT: helping whale hunters adapt
to climate change

52. Arctic ICT
 Climate change alters how local subsistence
communities hunt for food.
 Decreasing ice cover.
 Enable local communities to build their own kit
and share/visualise data via DIY science
 First Alaska Hack in Barrow, 30 July.
 http://citizencyberlab.eu/portfolio/arctic-
science-hack-lates/

54. Epicollect

55. TOOLS
 EPICOLLECT-PLUS
 HTML5 framework for mobile data
collection sharing and visualisation.
 Origin: epidemiology.
 http://www.epicollect.net

56. Epicollect

57. Epicollect

58. Evaluation
 How much do citizen scientists
learn?
 How does citizen science enable/
increase creativity?
 UNIGE/UCL

59. Learning Cube

60. GETTING INVOLVED…

68. Events / Hacks
 WSF 2013 Science Hack
 OTA 2013 Mobile Science Hack
 CERN Webfest 2013
 Mozfest 2013
 Cyberscience Summit 2014
 SMLates Make Hack Do
 WSF 2014 Science Hack

69. Upcoming events
 BARROW ARDUINO HACK
 Barrow, Alaska 28 July-3 August
 UNITAR DISASTER MAPPING
CHALLENGE:
 CERN WEBFEST 8-9 August 2014

70. Http://mobilecollective.co.uk

72. Give me a place to stand and I’ll
move the world
Brian Fuchs & Margaret Gold
δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ
τὰν γᾶν κινάσω