Would you like to learn more about the Folding@home community ??

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Today, we have a guest blog post by Vickie Curtis, a research student in the UK's Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology. She's working with the Folding@home team to glean more feedback from donors.

Would you like to learn more about the Folding@home community and your contribution to it? I am a doctoral student at the Institute for Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK. I am looking at how digital technologies are changing the way scientists interact with members of the wider public, and I am particularly interested in online 'citizen science' projects such as Folding@home.

Folding@home is one of the longest-running and most successful online citizen science projects, and it would be great to know a little more about why people contribute to the Folding@home community, their views about the project, and about these types of project in general. I have prepared an online survey for participants, which should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. The feedback will be shared with the Folding@home team and may help them to make improvements to the project. I will also share the findings with you via the website and blog.

All the information you supply will be kept on a secure server and not passed to any third parties. If you would like to take part, please follow the link below.

Online survey here



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Folding@home survey still open

Here's a guest post from Vickie Curtis, a Research Student at UK's Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology.

I am a doctoral student at the Institute for Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK. I am looking at how digital technologies are changing the way scientists interact with members of the wider public, and I am particularly interested in online 'citizen science' projects such as Folding@home.

A few weeks ago we launched an online survey to learn a little more about why people contribute to the Folding@home community, their views about the project, and about ‘citizen science’ projects in general. We’ve had a great response so far, but would like to keep the survey open for a couple more weeks so that we can capture the views of participants who haven’t yet had a chance to take part (we would love to hear from more women who contribute to Folding@home).

The survey should take about 10 minutes, and the feedback will eventually be shared with you via the website and blog. All the information you supply will be kept on a secure server and not passed to any third parties. If you would like to take part, please follow the link below.

Many thanks to those who have already contributed!

Survey

 

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Summary

Survey summary
January 12, 2014 by Vijay Pande ·

Vickie Curtis has written a summary of her survey work, outlining the main findings. We’ve found this survey very useful and have made some internal changes in order to take advantage of some of the findings there, especially in terms of improving donor communications.

You can find her summary here: Survey Summary – F@H Participants

 

[gabi_golan]

Thanks for posting this, it's very interesting!