A comparison of social, learning, and financial strategies on crowd engagement and output quality

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 967-978

  Yu, Lixiu ^a   André, Paul ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowds; Incentives; Motivations; Strategies

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION;

CROWDS; CROWDSOURCING; FINANCIAL STRATEGIES; INCENTIVES; LEARNING STRATEGY; OUTPUT QUALITY; SOCIAL STRATEGY; STRATEGIES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898974524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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