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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants and refugees in the United States often face significant barriers in accessing social services, including mental health support, legal assistance, ESL or related education, housing, vocational training, workforce resources, transportation, and citizenship support. This article explores the strengths and challenges of community‐based
Rooshey Hasnain +7 more
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Large-Scale Plant Classification with Deep Neural Networks
, 2017 This paper discusses the potential of applying deep learning techniques for plant classification and its usage for citizen science in large-scale biodiversity monitoring. We show that plant classification using near state-of-the-art convolutional network
Alexis Joly +3 more
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Opportunities and Risks for Citizen Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2019 Members of the public are making substantial contributions to science as citizen scientists, and advances in technologies have enabled citizens to make even more substantial contributions.
Luigi Ceccaroni +6 more
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Citizen Science practices for Computational Social Sciences research: The conceptualization of Pop-Up Experiments [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Under the name of Citizen Science, many innovative practices in which volunteers partner with scientist to pose and answer real-world questions are quickly growing worldwide. Citizen Science can furnish ready made solutions with the active role of citizens.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The growing diversity of the U.S. population, partly due to immigration, has called attention to scholars and practitioners to attend to immigrants' cultural beliefs, values, and ways of doing when designing interventions to promote health and wellbeing.
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar +10 more
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Introducing citizen inquiry [PDF]
, 2017 The term ‘citizen inquiry’ was coined to describe ways that members of the public can learn by initiating or joining shared inquiry-led scientific investigations (Sharples et al., 2013).
Herodotou, Christothea +2 more
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What is online citizen science anyway? An educational perspective [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 In this paper we seek to contribute to the debate about the nature of citizen involvement in real scientific projects by the means of online tools that facilitate crowdsourcing and collaboration. We focus on an understudied area, the impact of online citizen science participation on the science education of school age children. We present a binary tree
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Online Citizen Science: A Systematic Review of Effects on Learning and Scientific Literacy
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2020 Participation in online citizen science is increasingly popular, yet studies that examine the impact on participants’ learning are limited. The aims of this paper are to identify the learning impact on volunteers who participate in online citizen science
M. Aristeidou, C. Herodotou
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Seguir adelante: A qualitative exploration of Latino farmworkers' work and nonwork resources
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Latino immigrant workers have been an exploited community within many dangerous workforces, but especially within the agricultural industry. They are a crucial population for the labor and economy of the U.S., yet Latino farmworkers report feeling expendable, discriminated against, and exposed to hazardous working conditions.
Faviola Robles Saenz +3 more
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Design Guidelines for the User-Centred Collaborative Citizen Science Platforms [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Online Citizen Science platforms are good examples of socio-technical systems where technology-enabled interactions occur between scientists and the general public (volunteers). Citizen Science platforms usually host multiple Citizen Science projects, and allow volunteers to choose the ones to participate in.
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