Gamifying citizen science: A study of two user groups

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 137-140

  Bowser, Anne ^a   Hansen, Derek ^b   Preece, Jenny ^a   He, Yurong ^a   Boston, Carol ^a   Hammock, Jen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Gamification; Motivation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION;

AFFORDANCES; CITIZEN SCIENCE; GAMIFICATION; INHERENT VALUE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; USER GROUPS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84899013876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556420.2556502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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