Technology-Mediated Citizen Science Participation: A Motivational Model

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 249-256

  Nov, Oded ^a   Arazy, Ofer ^b   Anderson, David ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; COMPUTING PROGRAMMES; HIGH GRANULARITY; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; SCIENCE PROJECTS; TASK GRANULARITY; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING; WEB BASED;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 85070852072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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