Guess What! You're the First to See This Event: Increasing Contribution to Online Production Communities

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dc.contributor.authorJackson, Corey Brian
dc.contributor.authorCrowston, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorMugar, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorØsterlund, Carsten
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T22:48:34Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T22:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we describe the results of an online field experiment examining the impacts of messaging about task novelty on the volume of volunteers' contributions to an online citizen science project. Encouraging volunteers to provide a little more content as they work is an attractive strategy to increase the community's output. Prior research found that an important motivation for participation in online citizen science is the wonder of being the first person to observe a particular image. To appeal to this motivation, a pop-up message was added to an online citizen science project that alerted volunteers when they were the first to annotate a particular image. Our analysis reveals that new volunteers who saw these messages increased the volume of annotations they contributed. The results of our study suggest an additional strategy to increase the amount of work volunteers contribute to online communities and citizen science projects specifically.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/2957276.2957284
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4454
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
dc.subjectnovelty
dc.subjectcitizen science
dc.subjectonline communities
dc.subjectexperiments
dc.subjectintention-to-treat
dc.titleGuess What! You're the First to See This Event: Increasing Contribution to Online Production Communitiesen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.startPage171–179
gi.conference.locationSanibel Island, Florida, USA

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