Incentives To Participation
In different human-based computation projects people are motivated by one or more of the following.
- Receiving a fair share of the result
- Direct monetary compensation (e.g. in Amazon Mechanical Turk, Answerly Operator, ChaCha Search guide, Mahalo.com Answers members, Clickworker)
- Desire to diversify their activity (e.g. "people aren't asked in their daily lives to be creative" )
- Esthetic satisfaction
- Curiosity, desire to test if it works
- Volunteerism, desire to support a cause of the project
- Reciprocity, exchange, mutual help
- Desire to be entertained with the competitive or cooperative spirit of a game
- Desire to communicate and share knowledge
- Desire to share a user innovation to see if someone else can improve on it
- Desire to game the system and influence the final result
- Fun
- Increasing online reputation/recognition
Many projects had explored various combinations of these incentives. See more information about motivation of participants in these projects in Kosorukoff (2000) and von Hippel (2005).
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