Motivation of workers on microtask crowdsourcing platforms. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Babak Naderi.
• Authors: Naderi, Babak
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Acronyms; Abstract; Zusammenfassung; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Crowdsourcing Microtask; 1.1.1 Platforms; 1.1.2 Tasks; 1.2 Scope and Research Questions; 2 Theoretical Background on Motivation; 2.1 Taxonomy; 2.1.1 Motivation; 2.1.2 Influencing Factors; 2.1.3 Outcomes; 2.2 Other Motivational Theories; 2.3 Motivation in Crowdsourcing; 2.4 Chapter Summary; 3 Who are the Crowdworkers?; 3.1 Method; 3.2 Data Collection; 3.3 Results; 3.3.1 Demographics; 3.3.2 Socioeconomic Status; 3.3.3 Crowdwork Conditions; 3.4 Chapter Discussion and Summary; 4 How to Measure Motivation? 4.1 Initial Item Set4.2 Study 4.1: Construction of the CWMS Questionnaire; 4.2.1 Method; 4.2.2 Factorial Structure of the Questionnaire; 4.3 Validation of the Questionnaire; 4.4 Chapter Discussion and Summary; 5 What Determines Task Selection Strategies?; 5.1 Study 5.1: What are the Influencing Factors?; 5.1.1 Method; 5.1.2 Results; 5.1.3 Discussion; 5.2 Study 5.2: How to Measure the Task-Related Factors?; 5.2.1 Method; 5.2.2 Results; 5.2.3 Discussion; 5.3 Study 5.3: Is the Task-Selection Behavior of Workers Predictable?; 5.3.1 Method; 5.3.2 Results; 5.3.3 Discussion. 5.4 Study 5.4: What is the Relative Importance â#x80;Œ5.4.1 Method; 5.4.2 Results; 5.4.3 Discussion; 5.5 Study 5.5: Is the Expected Workload Predictable?; 5.5.1 Method; 5.5.2 Results; 5.5.3 Discussion; 5.6 Chapter Discussion and Summary; 6 What Influences Workers' Performance?; 6.1 Motivation; 6.1.1 Survey Task; 6.1.2 Study 6.1: Algorithmic and Heuristic Tasks; 6.1.3 Discussion; 6.2 Task Design; 6.2.1 Study 6.2: Effect of Being Observed on the Reliability of Responses; 6.2.2 Study 6.3: Effect of Trapping Questions on the Performance of Crowdworkers; 6.3 Chapter Discussion and Summary. 7 Conclusion and Outlook7.1 Conclusion; 7.2 Future Work; 7.2.1 General Motivation; 7.2.2 Task-Specific Motivation; 7.2.3 Performance; Appendix A Features and the Model for Predicting Expected Workload; A.1 Features; A.1.1 Syntax Based Features; A.1.2 Semantic Based Features; A.1.3 Visual Features; A.2 Prediction Model; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.3/14; Engineering; Human computation; Employee motivation; Social media; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Employee motivation; Human computation; Computers -- Information Technology; Social Science -- Media Studies; Information retrieval; Media studies; Technology & Engineering -- Electronics -- General; Imaging systems & technology; Engineering; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Social Media; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319727004; 3319727001
• Related ISBNs: 9783319726991; 3319726994
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 2, 2018).
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