Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring

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

Volumn 26-February-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 297-300

  Jackson, Corey ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^a   Mugar, Gabriel ^a   Østerlund, Carsten ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Experiments; Goal setting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONTROL GROUPS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GOAL SETTING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE CITIZENS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84963623623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2818052.2869129     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Gerard Beenen, Kimberly Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Klarissa Chang, Dan Frankowski, Paul Resnick, and Robert E Kraut. 2004. Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities. In CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM Request Permissions, New York, New York, USA, 212-221.
2. Eric Bradlow. 1998. Encouragement Designs: An Approach to Self-Selected Samples in an Experimental Design. Marketing Letters 9, 4 (1998), 383-391.
3. Joachim Kimmerle and Ulrike Cress. 2013. The Impact of Cognitive Anchors on Information-Sharing Behavior. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking 16, 1 (Jan. 2013), 45-49.
4. Robert E Kraut, Paul Resnick, and Sara 1940 Kiesler. 2011. Building successful online communities : evidence-based social design. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press.
5. Edwin A Locke and Gary P Latham. 2002. Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey. American Psychologist 57, 9 (2002), 705-717.
6. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. 1974. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. Science 185, 4157 (Sept. 1974), 1124-1131.
7. Haiyi Zhu, Robert E Kraut, and Aniket Kittur. 2012. Organizing without formal organization: group identification, goal setting and social modeling in directing online production. In CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. ACM Request Permissions, New York, New York, USA, 935-944.