1. Games to engage users and collect data
Irene Celino (Cefriel)
Games to engage users and collect data

2. Night Knights
Game with a purpose (GWAP) to solve one of the “Cities at Night” challenges, i.e. classifying pictures taken from ISS and made available by NASA
Purpose: identify photos of cities at night, as well as photos of stars and black pictures (for calibration)
Achievement: design and development of an online game with a robust mechanism for aggregation of users’ classification
Adopted for education and a competition: winner participated to expedition to see the solar eclipse in the US

3. Night Knights features
Multilingual and responsive user interface
Guest access or social login
Simple classification game mechanics (two-players agreement) + automatic responses’ aggregation
Profile page, leaderboard, badges
Download hi-res pictures
Game video tutorial
Secure API for data exchange

4. Game Enabler to build Night Knights-like games
Night Knights is just an example of a GWAP to solve a Data Linking problem (specifically, classification)
A “white-label” version of the software behind Night Knights was released as open source (Apache v2 license) and made available on GitHub
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It contains a few data from Night Knights to let understand how it works; it can be customized and extended for other Data Linking scenarios in other LPIs
Come to us to learn how to build your own games!
Data linking: collection, creation, ranking, validation
(in the DoW: data acquisition, data curation, data annotation)

5. Stars Beat educational game
Goal: create a set of card decks to teach players about light pollution
Each deck has cards covering a particular topic (e.g. outside lighting, city illumination, animals, etc.)
Each dimension in a card indicates a light pollution effect (e.g. blue light is more pollutant than red)
The winning condition is related to the minimization of light pollution
Early prototype:

6. Game Enabler to build Stars Beat-like games
As we did with Night Knights, also for the Stars Beat game, we intend to implement a “white label” version and to release it as open source as another “game enabler”
We are also developing some guidelines on “how to create a card deck”, to facilitate the process of creating a new instance of our game enabler
Come to us to learn how to build your own games!