Gaming for (citizen) science: Exploring motivation and data quality in the context of crowdsourced science through the design and evaluation of a social-computational system

Proceedings - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 28-33

  Prestopnik, Nathan R ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen Science; Data Quality; Design; Design Science; Games; Gaming; Motivation; Participation; Social Computational Systems

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; DATA QUALITY; DESIGN SCIENCE; GAMES; GAMING; PARTICIPATION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DESIGN; RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 84856960510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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