Learning to fail: Experiencing public failure online through crowdfunding

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 581-590

  Greenberg, Michael D ^a   Gerber, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdfunding; Crowdsourcing; Failure; Feedback

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FEEDBACK; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CROWDFUNDING; CROWDSOURCING; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; FINANCIAL SUCCESS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCI); ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; POSITIVE EXPERIENCES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84900450336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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