Perceptions of virtual reward systems in crowdsourcing games

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue , 2017, Pages 365-374

  Goh, Dion Hoe Lian ^a   Pe Than, Ei Pa Pa ^a   Lee, Chei Sian ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Badges; Crowdsourcing games; Experiments; Motivational needs; Perceived enjoyment; Perceived output quality; Points; Virtual reward systems

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SURVEYS;

BADGES; MOTIVATIONAL NEEDS; OUTPUT QUALITY; PERCEIVED ENJOYMENT; POINTS; REWARD SYSTEMS;

CROWDSOURCING;

CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDSOURCING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOBILE APPLICATION; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD;

EID: 85009724496     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.006     Document Type: Article

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