GeoTagger: a collaborative and participatory environmental inquiry system

Authors:
Jerry Alan Fails;Katherine G. Herbert;Emily Hill;Christopher Loeschorn;Spencer Kordecki;David Dymko;Andrew DeStefano;Zill Christian
Affiliations:
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA;Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the companion publication of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Year:
2014

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Abstract

This note focuses on the motivation, approach, and the initial prototype implementation of Geotagger: a collaborative participatory environmental inquiry system. We situate the need for such a technology, and discuss related work -- much of which is situated in the realm of citizen science. Our work uniquely distinguishes itself from many other citizen science applications in that it supports limited data collection and analysis, with the additional benefit of supporting social interactions and engagement through conversations about observed data. This is accomplished by creating friends and groups which are collaborators in the observational inquiry process.