So far Cos4Cloud partners have been involving different individuals and groups in the codesign and now testing of the services through a range of events and activities.
For us this is very important. The Open University is a Cos4Cloud partner and iSpot is one of the Cos4Cloud citizen observatories integrating and testing these services as part of our contribution to research, citizen science, teaching and learning.
So what’s next? We are keen to share and gather the iSpot community’s feedback and have users involved in testing these Cos4Cloud services and this discussion is the first part of this. We have also set up a iSpot Cos4Cloud User Group to facilitate this. See https://forum.ispotnature.org/t/about-the-cos4cloud-project-ispot-cos4cloud-user-group/1624.
We need your input testing both FASTCAT-Cloud and the PlantNet-API in iSpot. Currently the AI is working in one direction in that it pulls an observation and suggests options in the comments section. We need human computer interaction i.e.you interacting with both services - such as adding comments and responding to the AI suggestions: were the options useful or correct? This will help to give us feedback on how they are performing.
We would like you to do this as much as possible over the coming weeks and in September two other iForum LIVE! sessions will be scheduled, one on each service, to facilitate scheduled group discussions about testing. We will inform you about the dates soon.
In the meantime we invite you to continue to add your comments and contributions anytime.