Sep 25, 2020 | News from our pilots
Citizen science engage students in meaningful science research that addresses real world issues and leads to scientific advancement. We would like to invite school students to contribute to one particular project. We intend to generate awareness about the problem of...
Sep 23, 2020 | News from our pilots
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Coney, the toolkit for designing, administering and analysing results of conversational surveys has been made available on Github (https://github.com/cefriel/coney ). Both the code and the documentation has been released on the...
Aug 31, 2020 | News from our pilots
The study of light pollution is one of the most innovative research topics, with the greatest scientific and social impact growth in recent years. Artificial light alters the natural patterns of light and dark. It comprises direct glare, chronically increased...
Aug 25, 2020 | News from our pilots
Sonic Kayaks are kayaks fitted with sensors to monitor and map environmental data – the data they collect is also sonified (turned into sound) in real-time, so you can hear changes in the environment as you paddle around. The team made a short video (5:20 mins)...
Jun 12, 2020 | News from ACTION, News from our pilots
By Gloria Re Calegari – Cefriel Cefriel’s team submitted a paper about Coney to the ISWC 2020 Conference (International Semantic Web Conference), a virtual conference that will take place from 2nd to 6th November 2020. Coney is a conversational survey tool...
May 7, 2020 | News from our pilots
Sonic Kayak is one of the six projects funded by the first ACTION Open Call. The Sonic Kayak system is a low cost open hardware for gathering and mapping fine-scale marine environmental data, which has not been previously possible to obtain. Data is sonified through...