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Large-scale Volunteer Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping

Dittus, MS; (2016) Large-scale Volunteer Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping. In: Gergle, D and Ringel Morris, MR and Bjørn, P and Konstan, J, (eds.) CSCW '16 Companion: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion. (pp. pp. 139-142). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Organisers of large crowdsourcing initiatives need to consider how to produce outcomes with their projects, but also how to build volunteer capacity. The initial contributor ex-perience plays an important role in this, particularly when contributions require some expertise: not all contributors who start to learn the practice are likely to be retained. My dissertation is focused on this growth challenge, using the example of the volunteer community of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. The research involves several quantitative observational studies at the scale of the individual, the group, and the collective, and qualitative studies of contributor experiences.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Large-scale Volunteer Engagement in Humanitarian Mapping
Event: 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Companion
Location: US
ISBN-13: 9781450339506
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/2818052.2874351
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2874351
Language: English
Additional information: Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author. Copyright is held by the owner/author. CSCW ’16 Companion, February 27–March 02, 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA. ACM 978-1-4503-3950-6/16/02.
Keywords: Crowdsourcing, Peer Production, Social Computing, Task Design, Social Presence, Engagement, Retention
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476228
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