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) |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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| Other | 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016 |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| City | San Francisco |
| Period | 2/26/16 → 3/2/16 |
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Keywords
- Citizen science
- Experiments
- Goal-setting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Human-Computer Interaction
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Encouraging work in citizen science : Experiments in goal setting and anchoring. / Jackson, Corey; Crowston, Kevin G; Mugar, Gabriel; Oesterlund, Carsten.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW. Vol. 26-February-2016 Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. p. 297-300.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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