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Android Roadkill is a citizen science app that allows users to record and submit wildlife roadkill observations from their smartphones. It aims to increase participation in roadkill data collection by making the submission process easier and faster through a simple 5-field interface. The app uses GPS to geotag observations and can work offline by saving data to the device to be uploaded later when internet is available. It is an open source project available on GitHub and its developers hope to add additional gamification features and modularity to share data with other similar platforms in the future.

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Android Roadkill

Android Roadkill is a citizen science app that allows users to record and submit wildlife roadkill observations from their smartphones. It aims to increase participation in roadkill data collection by making the submission process easier and faster through a simple 5-field interface. The app uses GPS to geotag observations and can work offline by saving data to the device to be uploaded later when internet is available. It is an open source project available on GitHub and its developers hope to add additional gamification features and modularity to share data with other similar platforms in the future.

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Android Roadkill, a citizen science app

California Geographical Society, Annual Meeting 2012

Alex Mandel
Co-Author: Paul Haverkamp
Geography Graduate Group University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 [email protected]

April 28, 2012

Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Non-commercial

Citizen Science aka Crowdsourcing


Leveraging the People
Quantity Existing Skills Geographic Spread

Classics
eBird Frogwatch Bucket Brigade

New Comers
Public Laboratory OpenStreetMap Wikipedia

Quantity vs. Quality

Dawn of the Ubiquitous Computing Age

100s of millions of smartphones & tablets Cheap wireless ...in the hands of youth

Wildlife Crossing

http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/

Roadkill

Proof of Concept Smartphone application Android Platform


Number of Potential Users Signicantly lower barrier to develop

Goals
Increase Participation Make submission easier and faster

Features

Place Matters
GPS location from Photo(Geo-tagged) GPS or Map

Simple - 5 Fields or less quick data entry (2 min or less) Auto-completion of Species Works Oine
Save data on Device Upload later when you have an internet connection.

Map & List of your data

Open Source

https://github.com/wildintellect/android-roadkill

Whats missing?, but planned!

Oine Maps with OpenStreetMap Modularity to work with any similar website (A Common Interface for Citizen Observations) Enticement
Gamication
Fold-it - Protein folding puzzles Phylo - Genome matching puzzles Map Attack - The world is the game board

Make participating directly useful to the users.

Community Engagement
DavisWiki Openstreetmap

Lessons & the Future

Finding Programmers who care. Standard Web API for devices would really help. Sharing data widely so that others share with you.

Special Thanks
Fraser Shilling, Dave Waetjen, Joey Ng Data Contributors & Users Alpha version ready for testers, go to
http://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/android

Questions?

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