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Older Adults’ Motivation and Engagement with Diverse Crowdsourcing Citizen Science Tasks

Authors : Kinga Skorupska, Anna Jaskulska, Rafał Masłyk, Julia Paluch, Radosław Nielek, Wiesław Kopeć

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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In this exploratory study we evaluated the engagement, performance and preferences of older adults who interacted with different citizen science tasks. Out of 40 projects recently active on the Zooniverse platform we selected top ones to be represented by 8 diverse, yet standardized, microtasks, 2 in each category of image, audio, text and pattern recognition. Next, 33 older adults performed these microtasks at home and evaluated each task right after its completion to, finally, share what could encourage them to engage with such tasks in their free time. Based on the results we draw preliminary conclusions regarding older adults’ motivations for engaging with such crowdsourcing tasks and suggest some guidelines for task design while discussing interesting avenues for further inquiry in the area of crowdsourcing for older adults.

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previous chapter Comparing Performance Models for Bivariate Pointing Through a Crowdsourced Experiment

next chapter Quality Assessment of Crowdwork via Eye Gaze: Towards Adaptive Personalized Crowdsourcing

Survey results were presented in a post: https://blog.zooniverse.org/2015/03/05/who-are-the-zooniverse-community-we-asked-them/.

The book is available for download here: https://blog.zooniverse.org/2020/11/17/into-the-zooniverse-vol-ii-now-available/.

We have chosen to use multiple choice for age groups as not to bias the participants with an assumption that the research was targeted at older adults.

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Title: Older Adults’ Motivation and Engagement with Diverse Crowdsourcing Citizen Science Tasks
Authors: Kinga Skorupska
Anna Jaskulska
Rafał Masłyk
Julia Paluch
Radosław Nielek
Wiesław Kopeć
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-85615-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-85616-8

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_7

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