Abstract
This paper describes the results of an online field experiment where we designed and analyzed the effects of a goal-setting tracker in an online citizen science project-Floating Forest. The design of our tracker was influenced by psychology theories of anchoring and goal-setting. Our results of our experiment revealed: (1) setting goals increases annotations in a session; (2) numeric anchors influence goals; and (3) participants in the treatment who saw a prompt but did not set a goal, contributed more annotations than the participants in the control group. Our research shows how goal-setting and anchoring combine to increase work in online communities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Pages | 297-300 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 26-February-2016 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781450339506 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 27 2016 |
Event | 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 - San Francisco, United States Duration: Feb 26 2016 → Mar 2 2016 |
Other
Other | 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 |
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Country | United States |
City | San Francisco |
Period | 2/26/16 → 3/2/16 |
Keywords
- Citizen science
- Experiments
- Goal-setting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction