Crowdsourcing participation inequality: A SCOUT model for the enterprise domain

Workshop Proceedings - Human Computation Workshop 2010, HCOMP2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 30-33

  Stewart, Osamuyimen ^a   Lubensky, David ^a   Huerta, Juan M ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Incentives; Motivation; Online community

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; INCENTIVES; MULTI-USER; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; TASK-BASED; USER PARTICIPATION;

INDUSTRY; MOTIVATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956242966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1837885.1837895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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