Designing for dabblers and deterring drop-outs in citizen science

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2985-2994

  Eveleigh, Alexandra ^a   Jennett, Charlene ^a   Blandford, Ann ^a   Brohan, Philip ^b   Cox, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Dabblers; Engagement; Motivation

Indexed keywords

DROPS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; DABBLERS; ENGAGEMENT; ONLINE CITIZENS; POTENTIAL VALUES; SHORT PERIODS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84900419850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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