Competing or aiming to be average? Normification as a means of engaging digital volunteers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1222-1233

  Preist, Chris ^a   Massung, Elaine ^a   Coyle, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Competition; Crowdsourcing; Gamification; Normification; Personal norms; Social norms

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; GAMIFICATION; NORMIFICATION; PERSONAL NORM; SOCIAL NORM;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84899010623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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