Designing Bird Call Audio for Game-like Wildlife Citizen Science Engagement with Jessie Oliver, PhD Candidate Ep36

<p>Do you ever hear animals you never see? Secretive and rare animals, such as Eastern bristlebirds, can be most easily found by the sounds that they make. We can only do this, however, if we learn how to decipher their calls!&nbsp;</p> <p>In her PhD research, Jessie is exploring how to design future technologies that support people in becoming familiar with identifying bird calls from audio recordings. Birders and members of the public explored Jessie’s research prototypes, such as the Bristle Whistle Challenge. Conservationists and members of the public are likely to benefit from having enticing tools that include creative playful and task-oriented gameful interactions with bird calls. Such tools may support many people, whether learning calls for fun, or to support citizen science, ecology, or wildlife conservation efforts.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Jessie mentions these apps:</p> <p>Fold IT - Protein folding game https://fold.it/</p> <p>Zooniverse - https://www.zooniverse.org/</p> <p>Rorshak ink blot test - http://rorschachinkblottest.com/</p> <p>e-Bird app - https://ebird.org/about/ebird-mobile/</p> <p>Frog ID - https://www.frogid.net.au/</p> <p>I-Naturalist - https://www.inaturalist.org/</p> <p>Otter-AI - https://otter.ai/</p> <p>Cornel Lab of bird sounds - https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/</p> <p>Xeno Canto bird sounds - https://xeno-canto.org/</p> <p>Cat Tracker - https://cattracker.org/cat-tracker/</p> <p>Eco-Acoustics Researcher, Bernie Krause https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bernie-Krause<br> <br> Learn more about Jessie’s PhD and broader research&nbsp;here https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3464-0247 and email or connect via&nbsp;<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_JessieLOliver&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=UC63PHC7AgzgA2R0kf36RTioKvCRNxd3Q47KLHKPa3g&amp;m=wA4A1TBGUNjuSoxyFLYAl_Zf7WFxIvJ_u39TZRq8CB0&amp;s=JHtIQ0kuu_sB0bkqwaNYH6NMibmD-TYHRl7PpK4U3fk&amp;e=">Twitter</a> https://twitter.com/JessieLOliver for paper access.</p> <p>* * *&