Web-gaming and Social Computation

In order to study techno-social systems the mere data mining can be unfit to provide the appropriate experimental tests. A more focused, active and sophisticated approach is required to overcome limitations posed by the data mining approach. Yet, the power of the crowd is crucial but it can be exploited in a more studied way, evoking the power of Social Computation to solve the specific experimental need. And in order to involve a motivated community there are two main approaches. The Citizen Science approach aims directly at the recruitment of people interested in the scientific issue, even if lacking of specific competences. The GWAP (Games With A Purpose) approach points at a more general public attracted by the entertaining value of the task formulation. Thus is crucial that the task have to be reshaped in a catchy and engaging web-game.

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Experimental Tribe is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps researchers to realize web games/experiments and it let people join, while enjoying, the scientific research. It is powered by the Social Dynamic Team, which has also used it for several web-game shaped experiments.

2013

Becker, Martin; Caminiti, Saverio; Fiorella, Donato; Francis, Louise; Gravino, Pietro; Haklay, Mordechai; Hotho, Andreas; Loreto, Vittorio; Mueller, Juergen; Ricchiuti, Ferdinando; Servedio, Vito; Sirbu, Alina; Tria, Francesca

Awareness and learning in participatory noise sensing (Journal Article)

PLoS ONE, 8 , pp. e81638-1–e81638-12, 2013.

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Caminiti, Saverio; Cicali, Claudio; Gravino, Pietro; Loreto, Vittorio; Servedio, Vito DP; Sirbu, Alina; Tria, Francesca

XTribe: a web-based social computation platform (Inproceeding)

Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013 Third International Conference on, pp. 397–403, IEEE 2013.

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2011

Cicali, Claudio; Tria, Francesca; Servedio, Vito DP; Gravino, Pietro; Loreto, Vittorio; Warglien, Massimo; Paolacci, Gabriele

Experimental tribe: a general platform for web-gaming and social computation (Inproceeding)

Second Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds publisher=Citeseer, 2011.

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2010

Loreto, Vittorio; Capocci, Andrea; Servedio, Vito

Partecipatory sensing in policy modelling: a complex systems view (Incollection)

CROSSROAD Project, 2010.

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2009

Cattuto, Ciro; Barrat, Alain; Baldassarri, Andrea; Schehr, Gregory; Loreto, Vittorio

Collective dynamics of social annotation (Journal Article)

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PNAS), 106 , pp. 10511–10515, 2009.

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