Galaxy Zoo User Behaviors 2: How Forums, Favorites, and having Fun relates to User Classifications

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Jan 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21546703g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #467.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.509

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In this poster we examine how the rate at which Galaxy Zoo users classify galaxies varies as a function of other interactions they have within the Galaxy Zoo interface. The Galaxy Zoo project (Lintott 2008) asks users to look at images of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and to classify them based on their appearance. As of the submission of this abstract, nearly 240,000 individuals had registered to participate through two different interfaces - Galaxy Zoo 1 (GZ1) and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2) - and had contributed over 10,000,000 classification to the GZ2 project alone. To support the efforts of these users and to add some fun to what they are doing, we have provided them discussion forums, the ability to favorite items, and a variety of ways to explore their favorites, including the ability to create World Wide Telescope sky tours (see related poster, Luebbert et al.). We find that there are correlations between how users interact with these additional features and their rate of classifications, including a weak anti-correlation between extreme forum usage and classification number. In addition to forum-classification relationships, we look at trends in favoriting galaxies (including what types of objects get favorited), and trends as a function of generating WWT sky tours. This work has been funded through NASA ROSES NNX09AD34G.

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