Abstract
With more than 800 million monthly active users, Facebook bears significant potential for science projects. Climate Quiz is an interactive Web application in the tradition of "games with a purpose" that leverages this potential to create metadata through a crowdsourcing-based approach. It presents participants with two types of challenges: (1) selecting the correct relation to connect two environmental concepts, and (2) answering climate-related multiple choice questions. Climate Quiz aims to create shared meaning through collaborative ontology building, a process that captures emergent semantics and elicits formal knowledge in the form of a domain model. As an innovative survey instrument, the application leverages social networking platforms to capture indicators of environmental attitudes, lifestyles and behaviors.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | WebMedia '12 Proceedings of the 18th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web |
| Editors | R.M. Bressan G.; Silveira |
| Place of Publication | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Pages | 189-192 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-1706-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | WebMedia '12 - Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil Duration: 15 Oct 2012 → 18 Oct 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | WebMedia '12 |
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| Country/Territory | Brazil |
| City | São Paulo |
| Period | 15/10/2012 → 18/10/2012 |
