Would you like to learn more about the Folding@home community and your contribution to it?

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.