December 13, 2018 In Augmented Reality, Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Cooperation or competition – When do people contribute more? A field experiment on gamification of crowdsourcing

Image Source During the past decade, advances in modern information and communication technologies have enabled novel forms of economic coordination of under-utilized resources be it human capital, information goods, material goods, or even funding. Perhaps the most noteworthy Internet-based developments that have made resource coordination more...

November 23, 2018 In Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

The gamification of work: Lessons from crowdsourcing

Image Source: https://www.stockvault.net/photo/176769/businessman-drawing-social-network-on-virtual-screen The increasing ubiquitous interconnectedness based on recent technological developments, such as the Internet and smartphones, has enabled new modes of economic coordination and management to become feasible, such as crowdsourcing [1] and sharing economies [3][9]. Although in the past, organizations commonly created value...

October 12, 2018 In Crowdsourcing, Gamification, Publication By Shuo Yang

Gamified crowdsourcing: Conceptualization, literature review, and future agenda

Image Source: https://www.stockvault.net/photo/174795/social-media-network---world-map Two parallel phenomena are gaining attention in human–computer interaction research: gamification and crowdsourcing. Because crowdsourcing’s success depends on a mass of motivated crowdsourcees, crowdsourcing platforms have increasingly been imbued with motivational design features borrowed from games; a practice often called gamification. While the body...