Anne
Bowser
is
a
PhD
candidate
at
the
University
of
Maryland
studying
how
the
motivational
affordances
of
games
can
influence
participation
in
citizen
science
campaigns.
Her
dissertation
research
focuses
on
the
design
and
evaluation
of
Floracaching,
a
gamified
mobile
application
that
feeds
data
to
the
Project
Budburst
database.
Anne
also
works
as
a
Research
Assistant
at
the
Woodrow
Wilson
Center’s
Commons
Lab,
a
think
tank
that
analyzes
how
emerging
technologies
can
inform
policy,
governance,
research,
development,
and
applications.
Her
work
at
the
Wilson
Center
centers
on
encouraging
federally-sponsored
open
innovation
and
science.