Designing a gamification mechanism to encourage contributions in a crowdsourcing system

Author

de Franga, Flavio A. ; Vivacqua, Adriana S. ; Campos, Maria Luiza M.

Author_Institution

Grad. Program in Inf. (PPGI), Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

6-8 May 2015

Firstpage

462

Lastpage

466

Abstract

Crowdsourcing initiatives have been around for several years, and have been experiencing increasing adoption. Crowdsourced systems use the aggregation of efforts from multiple individuals to perform tasks or solve problems. The exponential growth of mobile computing has strengthened this approach, and several applications have appeared which enable individuals to provide information that can later be aggregated and reused. However, these applications are highly dependent on user contributions, and this can become a problem if not enough contributions are provided. Gamification strategies may help increase user contributions, through the creation of game-like interactions. This paper explores the design of gamification strategies to engage users to in real time data mapping.

Keywords

mobile computing; crowdsourcing system; game-like interactions; gamification mechanism; mobile computing; real time data mapping; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Games; Geology; Instruments; Internet; crowd based systems; crowdsourcing; gamification; mobile systems; real time mapping; system design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2015 IEEE 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Calabria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2015.7231003

Filename

7231003