Points, stories, worlds, and diegesis: Comparing player experiences in two citizen science games

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 492-506

  Prestopnik, Nathan R ^a   Tang, Jian ^b  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Diegesis; Gamification; Narrative; Stories

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DIEGESIS; GAMIFICATION; NARRATIVE; STORIES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84938540515     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.051     Document Type: Article

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