Playsourcing: a novel concept for knowledge creation in biomedical research

Being considered as a valid solution to the lack of ground truth data problem, crowdsourcing has recently gained a lot of attention within the biomedical domain. However, available concepts in life science domain require expert knowledge and thereby restrict the access to only very specific communities. In this paper, we go beyond state-of-the-art and present a novel concept for seamlessly embedding biomedical science into a common game canvas. Besides introducing the visual saliency concept, we thereby essentially eliminate the requirement for prior knowledge. We have further implemented a game to evaluate our novel concept in three different user studies.