Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring

Corey Jackson; Kevin G Crowston; Gabriel Mugar; Carsten Oesterlund

doi:10.1145/2818052.2869129

Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring

Corey Jackson, Kevin G Crowston, Gabriel Mugar, Carsten Oesterlund

School of Information Studies

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

4 Scopus citations

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	https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869129
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
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

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Jackson, C., Crowston, K. G., Mugar, G., & Oesterlund, C. (2016). Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW (Vol. 26-February-2016, pp. 297-300). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869129

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

Jackson, C, Crowston, KG, Mugar, G & Oesterlund, C 2016, Encouraging work in citizen science: Experiments in goal setting and anchoring. in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW. vol. 26-February-2016, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 297-300, 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016, San Francisco, United States, 2/26/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869129

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