Tobias Sturn
Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Tobias Sturn received his Master’s degree from the FH Technikum Vienna in Game Engineering and Simulation in 2010. He then worked as project assistant at the Computer Graphics Institute at TU Vienna. In the Landspotting Project he has been collaborating with IIASA to design and develop serious games for improving global land cover. He joined the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM) at IIASA in April 2014, to design and develop serious games like Cropland Capture, Picture Pile or FotoQuest Go.Mr. Sturn's interests cover human-computer interaction, computer graphics and all aspects of gaming, especially games with a purpose and edutainment. With his game development company Emoak he has published a number of games like 'Let’s Dance” or “Paper Climb'. The latter game has been finalist for the Content Award and Future Zone Award. With the help of his latest serious game development 'Cropland Capture' more than 4 million square kilometers of global land surface have already been validated to date by players to improve global land cover maps. The game has been widely featured in the media such as by NPR and The Guardian.
Last update: 13 NOV 2020
Publications
Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Fritz, S. , Sturn, T., Perger, C., Dürauer, M., Karner, M., Moorthy, I., Schepaschenko, D. , Domian, D., & McCallum, I. (2016). Crowdsourcing In-Situ Data on Land Cover and Land Use Using Gamification and Mobile Technology. Remote Sensing 8 (11) e905. 10.3390/rs8110905.
Fritz, S. , See, L. , Moorthy, I., McCallum, I. , Perger, C., Shchepashchenko, D. , Lesiv, M. , Shvidenko, A., Salk, C., Dürauer, M., Karner, M., Sturn, T., Dresel, C., Domian, D., Dunwoody, A., Kraxner, F., & Obersteiner, M. (2015). The Role of Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Tools in Supporting Systems Analysis at IIASA. In: Systems Analysis 2015 - A Conference in Celebration of Howard Raiffa, 11 -13 November, 2015, Laxenburg, Austria.
See, L. , Fritz, S. , Perger, C., Schill, C., McCallum, I. , Schepaschenko, D. , Dürauer, M., Sturn, T., Karne, M., Kraxner, F., & Obersteiner, M. (2015). Harnessing the power of volunteers, the internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information using Geo-Wiki. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 98 324-335. 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.03.002.
Sturn, T., Wimmer, M., Salk, C., Perger, C., See, L. , & Fritz, S. (2015). Cropland Capture – A Game for Improving Global Cropland
Maps. In: Foundatoins of Digital Games, 22-25 June 2015, California.
Salk, C., Sturn, T., Fritz, S. , See, L. , Fuss, S., Perger, C., Dürauer, M., McCallum, I. , & Obersteiner, M. (2014). Collecting, analyzing and assessing big land use data: Results from the cropland capture game. Presentation, [[AGU Fall Meeting]], 15-19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA (2014)