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What motivates Wikipedians?
  • O. Nov
  • Psychology
    CACM
  • 1 November 2007
In order to increase and enhance user-generated content contributions, it is important to understand the factors that lead people to freely share their time and knowledge with others.
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Exploring motivations for contributing to open source initiatives: The roles of contribution context and personal values
  • S. OregO. Nov
  • Psychology, Business
    Comput. Hum. Behav.
  • 1 September 2008
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Information Quality in Wikipedia: The Effects of Group Composition and Task Conflict
TLDR
A theoretical model is developed that explains how the diversity in members' knowledge bases, the task-related conflicts that occur during the collaborative authoring process, and the different roles members play in Wikipedia interact to determine the quality of Wikipedia articles.
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COVID-19 transforms health care through telemedicine: Evidence from the field
TLDR
The COVID-19 pandemic has driven rapid expansion of telemedicine use for urgent care and nonurgent care visits beyond baseline periods, and this reflects an important change in teleomedicine that other institutions facing the COVID the pandemic should anticipate.
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Scientists@Home: What Drives the Quantity and Quality of Online Citizen Science Participation?
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Findings from a longitudinal empirical study in three different citizen science projects reveal that quantity of contribution is determined by collective motives, norm-oriented motives, reputation, and intrinsic motives, and contribution quality is positively affected only by collective motive and reputation.
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Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
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It is shown that tenure in the community does affect participation, but that this effect depends on the type of participation activity, and a weak moderating effect on a number of motivations with regard to their effect on participation is demonstrated.
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Dusting for science: motivation and participation of digital citizen science volunteers
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Volunteers at Stardust@home a digital citizen science project, in which volunteers classify online images from NASA's Stardust spacecraft, find that collective and intrinsic motivations are the most salient motivational factors, whereas reward motives seem to be less relevant.
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SONYC: a system for monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating urban noise pollution
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Noise pollution is not merely an annoyance but an important problem with broad societal effects that apply to a significant portion of the population, and effective noise mitigation is in the public interest, with the promise of health, economic, and quality-of-life benefits.
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The Persuasive Power of Data Visualization
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The circumstances under which data visualization can make a message more persuasive are defined, hypotheses are proposed, and quantitative and qualitative analyses on studies conducted to test these hypotheses are performed.
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Users' personality and perceived ease of use of digital libraries: The case for resistance to change
  • O. NovChen Ye
  • Computer Science
    J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
  • 1 March 2008
The use of digital libraries has seen steady growth in the past two decades. However, as with other new technologies, effective use of digital libraries depends on user acceptance, which in turn is…
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