Hi Charlotte, Yes, as you wrote, the research I'm personally doing is to have some insights on how to support the OSM community, and in general all the geographic crowd-sourcing communities, with the best tools to facilitate and optimise user coordination.
Thanks for your feedback and apologise again for the off-topic thread, Giovanni On 1 May 2015 22:15, "Charlotte Wolter" <techl...@techlady.com> wrote: > Giovanni, > > I echo some of the other questions about your research. > My concerns are: > --You did not provide any advance notice > --You did not name the professor(s) who are principal > investigators > --the link to the study is not a link to your university > --we are all slammed with the Nepal response, so many of us don't > have five minutes > I'm not worried about your questionnaire. Whether or not it is > effective is your problem. I hope you worked with your professors to > develop it. > I can only hope that your research also recognizes that, while > all volunteer organizations have limitations and are not perfect, the work > that they do is important and valuable. And, I hope the research--while > reaching for the unvarnished truth--is also done in the spirit of helping > those organizations be even more successful. > > Charlotte Wolter > > > At 03:19 AM 4/29/2015, you wrote: > > Hi all, > > Sorry for crossposting. > My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College > London, UK. I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in > the past have done many studies of OpenStreetMap. > I'm currently conducting a new OpenStreetMap study, and I'm > asking for your help. I'm trying to assess the extent to which > information on OSM is ever maintained or updated. Such knowledge > helps understand how to best support the OSM community with > appropriate tools. > I would be very grateful if you could give only 5 minutes of your > time to fill in a short anonymous survey. Your answers will help me > better understand your perspective in editing OpenStreetMap. > The survey can be accessed by clicking on the following link: > http://goo.gl/forms/6xtj14pwej > Your answers to the questionnaire will be stored securely and they > will be used only for research purposes. Confidentiality and anonymity > will be maintained and it will not be possible to identify you in any > way. > Let me know if, after having completed the survey, you would like to > receive the outcomes of my research, I will be more than happy to > share them with you once ready. > Thank you for your time, > > Giovanni > > PS. In case you're curious, you can find some of my past OpenStreetMap > studies here: > http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/cscw2015.pdf > http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/wsdm2014.pdf > http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/icwsm2013.pdf > http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/pubblications/cscw2013.pdf -- > > Giovanni Quattrone > Research Associate > University College London, > UK Department of Computer Science > http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/G.Quattrone/ > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list newbies@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > > > Charlotte Wolter > 927 18th Street Suite A > Santa Monica, California > 90403 > +1-310-597-4040 > techl...@techlady.com > Skype: thetechlady > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > newbies@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > >
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