Do Games Attract or Sustain Engagement in Citizen Science? A Study of Volunteer Motivations

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2013-April, Issue , 2013, Pages 1101-1106

  Iacovides, Ioanna ^a   Jennett, Charlene ^a   Cornish Trestrail, Cassandra ^a   Cox, Anna L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citizen Science; Engagement; Games; Gamification; Motivation; Online Communities

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; ENGAGEMENT; GAMES; GAMIFICATION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 85017665393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2468356.2468553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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