Profiles of engagement in online communities of citizen science participation

Aristeidou, Maria; Scanlon, Eileen; Sharples, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.044

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“…There is a traditional stereotype that the tasks volunteers perform tend to be simple and unimportant, such as giving directions and distributing leaflets. However, in recent years there has been growing interest in recruiting volunteers for citizen science projects to take part in scientific studies (Aristeidou, Scanlon, & Sharples, 2017;Chien, 2017); accordingly, there has been continued growth in the involvement of the general public in shared scientific activities and science understanding (Aristeidou, Scanlon, & Sharples, 2017). The benefits of public engagement (PE) include (i) contributing to building a more scientifically literate society, (ii) injecting differing perspectives and creativity into research design and results, and (iii) fostering more societally relevant and desirable research and innovation outcomes (Martin, 2017).…”

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Enhancing Volunteers’ Intention to Engage in Citizen Science: The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Satisfaction and Science Trust

Kao

Lin

Chien

et al. 2020

JBSE

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This research was carried out at the Science Volunteer Program 2018, which is run by Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology. The purpose of the research was to understand the effects of self-efficacy, satisfaction, and science trust on science volunteers' intention to continue volunteering. The research drew on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to test how social cognitive variables affect volunteers' intention to continue engaging in events and with organizations. A total of 156 volunteers taking part in the program completed a questionnaire measuring Self-efficacy, Satisfaction, Trust, and Intention. A structural equation model (SEM) was developed, and the proposed effects on the variables were tested using SEM procedures. The results of the SEM analysis found that there were positive effects

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Enhancing Volunteers’ Intention to Engage in Citizen Science: The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Satisfaction and Science Trust

Kao

Lin

Chien

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JBSE

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“…Clustering players to identify engagement profiles does not give the same results as in the cited citizen science analyses [17,18]. Cross-validation between different methods (within groups sum of squares and Silhouette statistics) suggests an optimal clustering with 3 groups.…”

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“…The mean values (and in brackets standard deviation) of the four main engagement metrics defined by [17] are shown in Table 2. For Night Knights, we distinguish the global values and those measured during the competition only (extrinsic motivation period); for comparison, we also report the values for the citizen science initiatives illustrated in [17,18]. Daily devoted time for Night Knights is measured by approximation, multiplying the number of game rounds per 1-minute duration (the actual time is higher, because players also browse leaderboards, badges, played pictures, etc.…”

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Interplay of Game Incentives, Player Profiles and Task Difficulty in Games with a Purpose

Calegari

Celino

2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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How to take multiple factors into account when evaluating a Game with a Purpose? How is player behaviour or participation influenced by different incentives? How does player engagement impact their accuracy in solving tasks? In this paper, we present a detailed investigation of multiple factors affecting the evaluation of a GWAP and we show how they impact on the achieved results. We inform our study with the experimental assessment of a GWAP designed to solve a multinomial classification task.

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“…An increase in effort through social information may also be applied to citizen science. By providing digital footprints of previous users, researchers can gather richer data using the same number of participants in citizen science projects, which often suffer from low long‐term engagement (Aristeidou, Scanlon, & Sharples, ; Nov, Arazy, & Anderson, ; Ponciano & Brasileiro, ). It is proposed that displaying the quantity of peers' contributions is an effective means to increase contributions through upward social comparison (Diner et al, ; Laut et al, ; Massung, Coyle, Cater, Jay, & Preist, ).…”

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Social Information as a Means to Enhance Engagement in Citizen Science‐Based Telerehabilitation

Nakayama

Tolbert

Nov

et al. 2018

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Advancements in computer‐mediated exercise put forward the feasibility of telerehabilitation, but it remains a challenge to retain patients' engagement in exercises. Building on our previous study demonstrating enhanced engagement in citizen science through social information about others' contributions, we propose a novel framework for effective telerehabilitation that integrates citizen science and social information into physical exercise. We hypothesized that social information about others' contributions would augment engagement in physical activity by encouraging people to invest more effort toward discovery of novel information in a citizen science context. We recruited healthy participants to monitor the environment of a polluted canal by tagging images using a haptic device toward gathering environmental information. Along with the images, we displayed the locations of the tags created by the previous participants. We found that participants increased both the amount and duration of physical activity when presented with a larger number of the previous tags. Further, they increased the diversity of tagged objects by avoiding the locations tagged by the previous participants, thereby generating richer information about the environment. Our results suggest that social information is a viable means to augment engagement in rehabilitation exercise by incentivizing the contribution to scientific activities.

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Profiles of engagement in online communities of citizen science participation

Cited by 107 publications

References 22 publications

Enhancing Volunteers’ Intention to Engage in Citizen Science: The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Satisfaction and Science Trust

Enhancing Volunteers’ Intention to Engage in Citizen Science: The Roles of Self-Efficacy, Satisfaction and Science Trust

Interplay of Game Incentives, Player Profiles and Task Difficulty in Games with a Purpose

Social Information as a Means to Enhance Engagement in Citizen Science‐Based Telerehabilitation

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