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BBC Lab UK is a BBC website that allowed the public to take part in online experiments by completing tests and surveys.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/〕 The website was active for four years until its data collection ceased in May 2013. It remains online and is available for participants to view their feedback.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/〕 Lab UK was commissioned in 2008, in response to other online ‘citizen science’ projects such as Galaxy Zoo and BugGuide. However the intention was to harness the BBC’s audience for mass participation to achieve very high numbers of cases.〔http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/reports/pdf/digital_britain_exec.pdf〕 A number of professional scientists were engaged to consult on the design and development of the website, as well as the design of individual experiments which the public would engage with. Each web experiment was structured to give feedback on the activity of the participant, immediately after they had submitted their data. Collectively, the experiment data would be handed over securely to the scientist who had designed the experiment. The analysis of the experiment data would be conducted by the scientist’s research team. Where possible, the BBC actively encouraged the publication of the results in peer-reviewed journals.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/articles/〕 The first experiment was published in 2009 and the final experiment was launched in 2012. The website stopped collecting data in May 2013 after its migration to the Knowledge & Learning product. == History == The BBC’s iF&L department had published several online quizzes to accompany BBC science television programming. Scientists such as Dr Val Curtis and Dr Stian Reimers asked whether they might analyse the anonymous data generated by the completion of these online quizzes. In ‘The Disgust Test’〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/emotions/disgust.shtml〕 and ‘Sex ID’,〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/articles/more_info.shtml〕 specific hypotheses were tested in the online experiments. The results were published in specialist journals. BBC's Multiplatform commissioners decided to make a re-usable experiment publication platform that could save all data to a common database. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BBC Lab UK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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