Now it’s even easier to contribute to science from your phone! On any crowded public bus (before the pandemic), people sat next to each other, eyes fixed on their phones, smiling, swiping. What were they all doing? Using a dating app, maybe. Or maybe they were separating wildcam footage of empty desert from beautiful birds. … Continue reading Zooniverse Mobile App Release v2.8.2!
We’re happy that in the three weeks since the email newsletter advertising the Zooniverse Mobile App (available on the Apple App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android) we’ve seen a great response from the Zooniverse community! Exciting Numbers New downloads of the app show that Zooniverse volunteers are interested in contributing to projects … Continue reading Notes on the Zooniverse mobile app: A first look at mobile usage and results
We recently deployed new functionality to our Zooniverse mobile app (available via iTunes and Google Play for iOS and Android). The list of what’s now available is: Swipe (binary question [Yes/No, A/B, etc.] response) Multi-answer question (A/B/C/D/etc.) Rectangle drawing task (drawing a rectangle around a feature within a subject) Multi-image subjects (e.g. uploading 2+ images … Continue reading Notes on the Zooniverse Mobile App: New Functionality Release
One of the big efforts for the mobile app right now is to make the project building experience for mobile feel about the same as it does for web. For the most part, the experiences were very similar. In fact, they were almost identical besides the limitations we put on what workflows mobile projects can … Continue reading Beta for Mobile
Hello! It’s probably about time that I introduce myself. I am the (relatively) new mobile developer working on the Zooniverse Android and iOS apps. I joined the team back in February and, as the sole developer on the project, I want to not only improve and enhance our current app, but also focus on making … Continue reading Notes on Mobile: Launching a Workflow
Today’s cross-post is from ChelseaTroy.com, blog site of one of our Zooniverse developers. Chelsea writes codes for open source projects like our Zooniverse Citizen Science Mobile App and NASA Landsat Image Processing Pipeline. She also teaches Mobile Software Development at the Master’s Program in Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Chelsea was selected as … Continue reading Cross-Post — Lessons from Space: Why Delay a Launch?
Here at the Zooniverse, we make scientific discovery accessible to the community. Now, we’re incorporating that philosophy into our software engineering. Our mobile developer, Chelsea Troy, live streams some of her development work on the Zooniverse Mobile App (available on the Apple App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android). This means that you can watch her as … Continue reading Live Coding the Zooniverse
Since the launch of our first project in 2007, the Zooniverse has grown and matured thanks to the tremendous contributions from our amazing community of volunteers around the world, as well as the Zooniverse web development teams and researchers based at the University of Oxford, the Adler Planetarium, the University of Minnesota, and many individual … Continue reading How To Communicate With The Zooniverse
In this week’s edition of our Who’s who in the Zoo blog series meet Brooke Simmons, Lecturer in Astrophysics at Lancaster University and Zooniverse team member. – Helen Name: Brooke Simmons Location: Lancaster University Tell us about your role within the team: I joined Galaxy Zoo in 2012 and the Zooniverse at more … Continue reading Who’s who in the Zoo – Brooke Simmons
To celebrate Citizen Science Day 2019, which is this coming Saturday 13th April, a different member of the Zooniverse team will be posting each day this week to share with you some of our all-time favourite Zooniverse projects. Today, Zooniverse Lead Designer Becky Rother. Let me start by saying that I am not an astronomer. … Continue reading Celebrating Citizen Science Day 2019, pt. 4
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