Using crowdsourcing to support pro-environmental community activism

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 371-380

  Massung, Elaine ^a   Coyle, David ^a   Cater, Kirsten ^a   Jay, Marc ^a   Preist, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community activism; Crowdsourcing; Gamification; Motivation; Participatory urbanism; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ACTIVISM; CROWDSOURCING; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; GAMIFICATION; INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATORS; MOBILE DATA COLLECTIONS; PARTICIPATORY URBANISM; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS;

DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; REGIONAL PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877995682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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