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Cool Neighbors: Combining Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science to Chart the Sun’s Cosmic Neighborhood

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Cool Neighbors: Combining Artificial Intelligence and Citizen Science to Chart the Sun’s Cosmic Neighborhood
المؤلفون: Aaron Meisner, Dan Caselden, Austin Humphreys, Grady Robbins, Eden Schapera, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Adam Schneider, L. Clifton Johnson, Marc Kuchner, Jacqueline Faherty, Sarah Casewell, Federico Marocco, Adam Burgasser, Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi
المصدر: Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 39-39 (2024)
بيانات النشر: Ubiquity Press, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: astronomy, citizen science, neural networks, image analysis, zooniverse, brown dwarfs, Science
الوصف: In this case study, we describe the design and implementation of the Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors citizen science project, which combines image-level deep learning with Zooniverse-hosted online crowdsourcing to mine large astronomical sky maps for rare celestial objects called “brown dwarfs.” Specifically, Cool Neighbors uses machine learning to pre-select the sky images shown to volunteers. Cool Neighbors represents an excellent opportunity to interrogate the effects of incorporating artificial intelligence into a citizen science project; its sibling project, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, uses no artificial intelligence, providing a natural point of comparison for participant engagement metrics. Through analysis of more than 10 million total Zooniverse classifications from the combination of Cool Neighbors and Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, among other results, we find (1) Cool Neighbors volunteers perform ~3x more classifications per unit of time invested than Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 volunteers, and (2) each registered Cool Neighbors participant performs ~2–5x more classifications than each registered Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 participant. We also discuss our measured approach to presenting the complementarity of machine learning and citizen science in volunteer-facing Cool Neighbors materials. Finally, we present a survey of advanced Backyard Worlds participants, which indicates that these citizen scientists are by and large not dissuaded from participating in Cool Neighbors because of its usage of artificial intelligence.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2057-4991
Relation: https://account.theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/index.php/up-j-cstp/article/view/737; https://doaj.org/toc/2057-4991
DOI: 10.5334/cstp.737
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/122c378549a84b31a3ddb968abc9ffa5
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.122c378549a84b31a3ddb968abc9ffa5
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20574991
DOI:10.5334/cstp.737