Volunteer computing: A model of the factors determining contribution to community-based scientific research

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 741-750

  Nov, Oded ^a   Anderson, David ^b   Arazy, Ofer ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

boinc; citizen science; crowdsourcing; motivations; online communities; seti@home; volunteer computing

Indexed keywords

BOINC; CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; COMPUTER RESOURCES; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; LARGE-COMPUTING; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURVEY DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 77954574589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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