GAMIFYING SCIENCE – THE ISSUE OF DATA VALIDATION

• Authors: Kleka Paweł , Łupkowski Paweł

Title variants

PL

Grywalizacja badań naukowych – jak zapewnić wysoką jakość otrzymywanych wyników?

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we will present the idea of gamifying scientific processes. Game design techniques appear to be very useful when we are dealing with processing enormous amounts of scientific data (think of domains such as biology or astronomy, for example). We will focus our attention on the issue of effectiveness of such an approach, as well as on the issue of procedures and techniques that ensure high quality of results obtained via gamified scientific processes.

Keywords

EN

GAMIFICATION; SCIENTIFIC DATA PROCESSING; GAMES WITH A PURPOSE; DATA VALIDATION

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Badania Gier (Games Research Association of Poland)
• Journal: Homo Ludens
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1(6)
• Pages: 45-55
• Document type: article

Contributors

author

Kleka Paweł

• Paweł Kleka, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Zakład Podstaw Badań Psychologicznych, ul. A. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznań, Poland

author

Łupkowski Paweł

• Paweł Kleka, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Zakład Podstaw Badań Psychologicznych, ul. A. Szamarzewskiego 89, 60-568 Poznań, Poland

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