An exploratory factor analysis of motivations for participating in Zooniverse, a collection of virtual citizen science projects

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 610-619

  Reed, Jason ^a   Raddick, M Jordan ^b   Lardner, Andrea ^b   Carney, Karen ^a  

^a ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; WEB SURVEYS;

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875485739     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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