Environments by Design: Crowdsourcing for Social Good, Health and Well-Being
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 3243
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Interests: digital health informatics; emerging technology and participatory science; environmental health; artificial intelligence and open knowledge systems; cultural informatics (digital heritage)
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Dear Colleagues,
We are in an age in which we are witnessing a growing convergence of physical, virtual, and knowledge spaces that are shaped by collaborative design to promote social good and broader health and well-being benefits. Purposive participation is bringing together the public, governments, and researchers around common goals of a social good – a positive and pro-active environment that benefits the largest number of people in the largest possible way.
The rise of crowdsourcing platforms and online communities has accelerated ways of participating and designing innovative solutions using forms of collective intelligence to share challenges. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, geographically distributed groups engaged in online crowdsourcing and civic platforms to generate research, exchange knowledge, and jointly problem-solve.
There are also critical gaps and disadvantages for those who do not have the resources to participate (e.g., lack access to digital infrastructure), low digital literacy, or those who are marginalized in governance or decision making.
Environments by design are ideally about global and local citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, communities, digital technology, information, and collaboration that equitably advances positive societal impact, health and well-being.
We invite papers for this Special Issue that combine a high academic standard and focus on qualitative or quantitative research, case studies or perspectives which address the topic, and those which illustrate crowd participation or co-creation methods and convergence(s) across physical and digital knowledge spaces would greatly enhance the Issue. Possible topics can include:
- Crowdsourced design of virtual or hybrid environments for social good, health and well-being;
- Gamified crowdsourcing and serious games for environmental, global or public health;
- Crowdsourced data and AI for environmental, global or public health;
- Crowdsourced digital humanities, social or health innovations;
- Crowdsourcing, citizen science, online communities, and micro-volunteering platforms supporting social good, health and well-being;
- Civic technologies for social good, health and well-being;
- Digital literacy and crowdsourced participation;
- Ethical aspects of environments by design.
Dr. Ann Borda
Dr. Andreea Molnar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social good
- crowdsourcing
- citizen science
- participatory design
- public and environmental health
- health and well-being
- serious games
- digital social innovation
- civic technologies
- digital literacy
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