@inproceedings{cef7ec8dfa2940b9aaf3c43cc3578547,
title = "Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring",
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.",
keywords = "Citizen science, Experiments, Goal-setting",
author = "Corey Jackson and Kevin Crowston and Gabriel Mugar and Carsten {\O}sterlund",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.; 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 ; Conference date: 26-02-2016 Through 02-03-2016",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/2818052.2869129",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "297--300",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion, CSCW 2016 Companion",
}