Using gamification to inspire new citizen science volunteers

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 18-25

  Bowser, Anne ^a   Hansen, Derek ^b   He, Yurong ^a   Boston, Carol ^a   Reid, Matthew ^c   Gunnell, Logan ^b   Preece, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Pariveda Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotracker; Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Gamification; Location based games; Millennials; Project Budburst

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

BIOTRACKER; BUDBURST; CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; GAMIFICATION; LOCATION-BASED GAMES; MILLENNIALS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84905474709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2583008.2583011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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