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Encouraging Work in Citizen Science: Experiments in Goal Setting and Anchoring

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Corey Jackson,

Gabriel Mugar,

Kevin Crowston,

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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2869129

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This paper describes the results of an online field exper-iment 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 an-notations than the participants in the control group. Our research shows how goal-setting and anchoring combine to increase work in online communities.

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CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion

February 2016

549 pages

ISBN:9781450339506

DOI:10.1145/2818052

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Northwestern University
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research
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University of Copenhagen
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University of Minnesota

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