Increasing citizen science contribution using a virtual peer

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 583-593

  Laut, Jeffrey ^a   Cappa, Francesco ^a,b,c   Nov, Oded ^a   Porfiri, Maurizio ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^c LUISS UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL INTERACTION; CITIZEN SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEED-BACK LOOP; ONLINE PARTICIPATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SCIENTIST; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84982751627     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23685     Document Type: Article

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