Andrea Wiggins

Dr. Andrea Wiggins and Dr. Kevin Crowston are affiliated with the Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha. They specialize in research areas spanning Citizen Science, Virtual Organizations, and Collaborative Research, leveraging information systems to address complex societal and technological challenges.

Their work focuses on understanding the diversity of citizen science projects, including design frameworks, data quality mechanisms, and social interaction dynamics. They have published extensively on conceptual models for virtual organizations and the future trajectories of citizen science.

Recent publications highlight interdisciplinary trends in cyberinfrastructure, massive virtual collaboration, and technology-enabled public participation. Their research contributes to theories of scientific knowledge production and organizational design in digital environments.