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INSEMTIVES - Incentives for Semantics
1st User Advisory Board Meeting
March 10th, 2010May 30, 2010, co-located with ESWC 2010 in Crete
Agenda:
9.30 – 10.00 Project overview (Coordinator)
10.00 – 11.00 Tools presentations (WP4 partners)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Open discussion and feedback from UAB
12.30 – 13.00 Closing (Coordinator)
19.00 Social event
Please confirm your attendance to Alice Carpentier until Friday, 19.3.2010 12.00.
MalariaControl.net as a multilayered motivational space
March 5th, 2010In this article recently appeared on FirstMonday, Viola Krebs illustrates the motives behind the willingness of a large community of individuals to volunteer computing power to help solve a medical research problem. What I find mighty interesting for our endeavors is:
a) the literature review section of the paper (it looks like we are doing a good job in tracking the relevant literature even though we apply it to a different domain!)
b) the methodological section in which they present a fine method for discriminating Implicit and Explicit motivation mechanisms.
You can read the whole paper here:
firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2783/2452
INSEMTIVES Game Ideas Challenge
February 18th, 2010Co-located with the 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010)
as part of the SemWiki 2010 workshop.
30th May – 3rd June, 2010, Heraklion, Greece
http://www.eswc2010.org/
Deadline for submission: 09.04.2010 (12.00 AM, GMT)
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Awards
Win attractive prizes at the INSEMTIVES Game Idea Challenge!
- 1st Prize: iPhone
- 2nd Prize: iPod Nano
- 3rd Prize: iPod Shuffle
Summary
Useful semantic content cannot be created fully automatically, but motivating people to contribute to this process remains challenging. Our project INSEMTIVES revisits fundamental design issues of semantic-content authoring tools in order to find out which incentives speak to people to become engaged with the Semantic Web, and to determine ways in which such mechanisms can be transferred into technology design. Hiding the technicalities of knowledge engineering, semantic annotation and data integration behind captivating, entertaining games seems to be a promising approach to achieve this goal.
As part of the INSEMTIVES game challenge we are looking for colorful, innovative ideas with a twist for new “games with a purpose”. The purpose, of course, is primarily the creation of useful semantic content, but there are no bounds to your creativity. To get some inspiration, you can have a look at some of our games: OntoPronto and OntoTube, which are about the development and population of an ontology, and the semantic annotation of video content, respectively. Other relevant topics could include the annotation of text, music files, photo collections, but also the interlinking of RDF data sets, their curation, the alignment of data sources, or any other aspect that facilitates the uptake of the Semantic Web.
Format
The ideas should be submitted in PDF format per email to games@sti2.at. The text should not exceed five pages and follow the outline below:
- Overview:
What Semantic Web-related aspect will this game solve? What will attract people to play this game? What is innovative in your idea?
- Game description:
Explain the game scenario: Is it a multi-players or a single-player game? Is there any time restriction? What is the target of the game? What makes your game entertaining? How do you prevent cheating?
- Screen mocks or sketches of the game:
How will your game look like? Describe the game interface and provide some pictures, either as screenshots or as hand-made sketches.
- Semantic content creation:
Explain how the game creates semantic content, that is, how user inputs are translated into RDF(S), OWL etc.
- Validation:
Explain how can you test whether the semantic content that the game creates is useful.
Review Process
The submitted game ideas will be reviewed by 3 reviewers according to its novelty, entertainment and Semantic Web-related impact value. The awards ceremony will be held at the European Semantic Web Conference as part of the SemWiki 2010 workshop.
Reviewers
- Pierre Andrews, University of Trento, Italy
- Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
- Carl Goodman, Pepper’s Ghost Productions, UK
- Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Katharina Siorpaes, STI Innsbruck, Austria
- Germán Toro del Valle, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
- Torben Wiedenhöfer, University of Siegen, Germany
- Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
- Marco Zamarian, University of Trento, Italy
Important Dates
- Deadline for submissions: 09.04.2010 (12.00 AM, GMT)
- Notification of the winners: 23.04.2010
- ESWC2010 conference: 30.05 – 03.06.2010
- Awards ceremony: 31.05.2010, co-located with the SemWiki workshop
Contact Information
Katharina Siorpaes
STI Innsbruck, Austria
Email: katharina.siorpaes@sti2.at
