Motivations of crowdsourcing contributors

Crowdsourcing for Success: Motivations, Design, & Ethics

While use of Mechanical Turk (AMT) studies [2, 22] is perhaps the best known example of crowdsourcing in the NLP community, not only do other paid platforms exist with different capabilities [23], but successful volunteer-based crowdsourcing initiatives are also bountiful, ranging from games [25, 16, 8] to to citizen science or humanities [21, 9, 3, 15], to less common avenues such as enabling ...

Dynamic Changes in Organizational Motivations to Crowdsourcing for GLAMs

Crowdsourcing has gained popularity as a form of outsourcing. Outsourcing researchers have extensively studied the motivations to outsource IT, but very few have studied the motivations of organizations to crowdsourcing, in particular for GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives, museums). GLAM institutions are increasingly adopting crowdsourcing technologies due to budgetary constraints and to st...

When data contributors meet multiple crowdsourcers: Bilateral competition in mobile crowdsourcing

With the increasingly wide use of sensor-embedded smartphones, we envision that there will be many crowdsourcers to acquire sensing data from a large population of smartphone contributors. They form a bilateral competition market, where crowdsourcers compete for the limited sensing service and smartphone contributors compete for the limited budget from crowdsourcers. Each crowdsourcer has to se...

The motivations, enablers and barriers for voluntary participation in an online crowdsourcing platform

This paper examines the phenomena of online crowdsourcing from the perspectives of both volunteers and the campaign coordinator of Tomnod e an online mapping project that uses crowdsourcing to identify objects and places in satellite images. A mixed-methods approach was used to study the enablers and barriers to participation, taking into consideration the whole spectrum of volunteers. The resu...

'WHAT AUTHORS WANT': the ALPSP research study on the motivations and concerns of contributors to learned journals