Exploring micro-incentive strategies for participant compensation in high-burden studies

UbiComp'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 435-444

  Musthag, Mohamed ^a   Raij, Andrew ^b   Ganesan, Deepak ^a   Kumar, Santosh ^c   Shiffman, Saul ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

micro incentives; micro payments; user study

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; GOOD DATA; INCENTIVE STRATEGIES; LOWER COST; MICRO-INCENTIVES; MICRO-PAYMENT SCHEMES; MICROPAYMENTS; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 80054062291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2030112.2030170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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