@inproceedings{d3df1c3c1d0447adb82e3d047a68b86b,
title = "Improving productivity in citizen science through controlled intervention",
abstract = "The majority of volunteers participating in citizen science projects perform only a few tasks each before leaving the system. We designed an intervention strategy to reduce disengagement in 16 different citizen science projects. Targeted users who had left the system received emails that directly addressed motivational factors that affect their engagement. Results show that participants receiving the emails were significantly more likely to return to productive activity when compared to a control group.",
keywords = "Citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Intervention strategies, Peer production",
author = "Avi Segal and Simpson, \{Robert J.\} and \{Kobi Gal\}, Ya'Akov and Victoria Homsy and Mark Hartswood and Page, \{Kevin R.\} and Marina Jirotka",
year = "2015",
month = may,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/2740908.2743051",
language = "English",
series = "WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "331--337",
booktitle = "WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web",
note = "24th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2015 ; Conference date: 18-05-2015 Through 22-05-2015",
}