"Because Science is Awesome": Studying Participation in a Citizen Science Game

被引：15
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作者：
Tinati, Ramine [1 ]
Luczak-Roesch, Markus [1 ]
Simperl, Elena [1 ]
Hall, Wendy [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Southampton, Web & Internet Sci, Southampton SO9 5NH, Hants, England
来源：
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE (WEBSCI'16) | 2016年
基金：
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词：
Citizen Science; Crowdsourcing; Online Communities; MOTIVATION;
D O I：
10.1145/2908131.2908151
中图分类号：
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号：
0812 ;
摘要：
In this paper, we examine the motivations for participation in Eye-Wire, a Web-based gamified citizen science platform. Our study is based on a large-scale survey to which we conducted a qualitative analysis of survey responses in order to understand what drives individuals to participate. Based on our analysis, we derive 18 motivations related to participation, and group them into 4 motivational themes related to engagement. We contextualize our findings against the broader literature on online communities, and compare our findings with other citizen science platforms, in order to understand the implications of gamification within the context of citizen science.
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页码：45 / 54
页数：10
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